This colorful kale quinoa salad is full of healthy ingredients and tastes incredible! Meal prep this easy plant-based lunch idea for meals all week.Looking for healthy lunch ideas? Here’s a salad that’s beautifully fresh and saves well for meals throughout the week: kale quinoa salad! Alex and I typically eat pretty boring for lunch, but we’ve been trying to up our game. And we’re thrilled to add this one to our repertoire. It’s full of healthy ingredients: quinoa, kale, peppers, carrots: and then covered in a delicious, ultra tangy dressing! It’s so flavorful and keeps that flavor 3 to 4 days in the fridge. Our lunches just got way more exciting! It also works as a side salad for healthy dinners.What’s in this kale quinoa salad?This kale quinoa salad has limited ingredients. Because our philosophy around here is pretty simple cooking (we even wrote a book about it). Yes, in every recipe we try to use as little ingredients as possible to get the biggest flavor. This salad is plant based and makes a fantastic tasty vegan lunch. Here’s what’s in this kale quinoa salad:Quinoa: Use our stovetop quinoa or Instant Pot quinoa methods to make up a big pot.Chickpeas: Using chickpeas adds plant-based protein. Substitute white beans if you’re not a chickpea fan!Tuscan kale: Kale holds up well in the fridge and is a healthy leafy green! (More below.)Bell pepper: Bell pepper is crunchy and full of Vitamin C.Carrots: Carrot adds another healthy crunch and lovely color.Dressing: The dressing is seriously simple: lots of apple cider vinegar to keep that tangy flavor for days, olive oil, and Dijon mustard.And there’s one more secret ingredient…And, the secret spice!The last ingredient in this salad is optional, but we recommend it for big flavor. It’s this: 1 pinch of curry powder! We wanted to point this out because it’s not intended to make the salad taste like curry. Instead, it adds a unique complexity that’s almost imperceptible. That’s the key to making this healthy salad taste intriguingly delicious! If you don’t have it on hand, you can skip this part.It’s easy to meal prep!This kale quinoa salad is easy to meal prep for healthy lunches throughout the week: or an easy dinner! Here are a few note
Read More
