This is an easy salad to make and is utterly delicious. It is based on the traditional tabbouleh found all over the middle east but I have replaced the usual cous cous or bulghur wheat with quinoa - I just prefer it and have been hooked on it since I was introduced to it by The Optimum Nutrition Bible that I read some time ago. For those who have never used quinoa, do go and try it. It's fairly widely available in good supermarkets and health food shops and you can cook it in the same way that you cook rice.
Quinoa Salad
quinoa
parsley (chopped very finely)
cucumber
cherry tomatoes
olive oil
lemon juice
pine nuts
syrian spice mix (my friend brought it back for me from Syria - don't know what's in it but it's fab!)
salt and pepper
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My challenge to create healthy and tasty packed lunches to inspire and delight!
About Me
- Lunch Monkey
- I'm a newly married British expat living in Muscat quickly adapting to life without farmers markets and Waitrose! I'm slowly getting used to leaving my home behind in London and moving to my miniscule kitchen in Muscat with no mod cons and only 4 of my treasured cookbooks from my library I left behind!
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Welcome to my blog!
As a former "career woman", I am adapting surprisingly quickly to my recent move to Muscat, Oman and my change of job to "housewife". Ah the gift of time! I'm loving spending long afternoons in the kitchen playing with new ideas and recipes and experimenting with weird and wonderful vegetables that I've never encountered back home in the UK. Without a job, my main focus has now become making interesting meals and putting all my energies into making delicious lunchboxes for my husband to take to work each day (we're newly weds - I'm enjoying being a doting wife!). On a drive for the two of us to lose a few pounds and improve our nutritional intake, I decided to create healthy but delicious and interesting packed lunches each day, predominantly gluten-free and vegetarian with a little fish and meat thrown in for good measure. I started this blog to record what I make each day to jog my memory when I'm lacking inspiration. Hopefully it will provide inspiration for others too.
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