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Brown Rice and Quinoa Salad

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This light Brown Rice and Quinoa Salad fits just right along side a juicy burger or makes the perfect light lunch. With fresh ingredients like spinach, tomatoes and cucumbers you know this salad is not only great tasting but has tons of flavor. This salad has some characteristics of a Greek Salad with feta, olives and pepperoncinis. The great thing about the recipe (other then it’s delicious) is that you can make it your own. Don’t like feta? Leave it out! Add something you do like.

With only 184 calories per serving (¾cup) you can even have a serving as a snack and feel guilt free! To make the process even easier, when making this Brown Rice and Quinoa Salad I used a brown rice and quinoa packet I got at Costco (pictured below). Everything is already cooked all I had to do was microwave the packet. It made a great shortcut!
Another one of my favorite salads using quinoa is a copycat recipe from a great restaurant in Phoenix AZ. True Food Kitchen. This recipe features fresh vegetables like snow peas, broccoli , carrots and bok choy.  Start your week right with a big bowl of healthy vegetables, chicken and nutrition packed quinoa!  Put a large bowl of nutritious ingredients in front of your family this week for dinner!  It’s the weirdest thing,  all those delicious flavors of vegetables and teriyaki the one ingredient that really pulls this recipe together is the avocado. Click here for the printable recipe—->>>>COPYCAT TRUE FOOD KITCHEN QUINOA TERIYAKI CHICKEN BOWL.

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Brown Rice and Quinoa Salad

Brown Rice and Quinoa Salad

Yield: 5 cups (¾ cup each)

This delicious salad comes in at only 184 calories per serving (without the feta)!

Ingredients

  • 1¼ cups cooked brown rice and quinoa
  • 1 cup fresh spinach, torn
  • 1 cup grape tomatoes
  • ¾ cup black beans, rinsed and drained
  • ½ cup cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped
  • ½ cup sliced pepperoncinis
  • ½ cup pitted green olives, halved
  • ¾ cup fat free Italian Dressing
  • (optional) 1½ cups crumbled feta

Instructions

In a large bowl, combine the brown rice and quinoa, spinach, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, pepperoncinis and olives. Pour ½ cup of the dressing over the quinoa mixture and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Just before serving, drizzle the remaining dressing over the salad, add the feta and toss to coat.

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