Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Quinoa Chicken Salad... With mint!

Quinoa is one of the most versitile grains out there. It can be mixed and matched with any and all food, making it extremely easy to use when cooking.

For this dish, I wanted to play around with fresh mint. I've never used it before so I wanted to keep all the ingredients simple so as to not have too many different flavors going on. The ending result was delicious, fresh, filling, oh yeah- and healthy!

I made it at night so that I wouldn't have to worry about making lunch before heading to work. With that being the case, I ate it cold. It was good cold, and I'm sure it will taste just as good hot, it's up to you!

Ingredients:
-1/2 cup quinoa cooked (directions on cooking are on the box)
- Chicken (I used precooked chicken from Trader Joes)
- 1/2 cup arugula
- 1/4 sweet onion
- 5 mini tomatoes
- 1/4 cup finely chopped mint
- 1 garlic clove
- Garlic powder to taste
- Cooking spray

Directions:
- Finely chop the garlic clove and place on a pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray (this saves calories instead of using olive oil)
- Chop the onion and place in the foil as well and let brown with the cloves for about 5 minutes
- Add the tomatoes and chicken to the pan, as well as the mint
- Sprinkle garlic powder on top and cook all the ingredients together until you see fit
- Have the quinoa cooking at the same time
- Mix the arugula in after both are done cooking
- When both are done you can either enjoy it then or save it for lunch the next day at work like I did :)


Cheers!

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