Protein packed Quinoa salad with greens

Continuing on the clean eating theme, this is a salad that will really lift you. Since this has so many greens and healthy stuff it makes you feel really healthy. This is a kind of a cleanser and provide you proteins and iron in a natural form. It's also quite filling, so it makes a substantial meal without having to add any carbs to your meal. Again, use what ever you like in the salad, I will give you the list of what I used, but this is a free from salad. What ever you want you can put in it. Just try and stay away from things like potatoes and full fate cream and cheese. Not that it won't taste nice, but it will defeat the purpose to eating a healthy salad. So here is what you need if you want to make it the way I made it.

Shopping list:

1. 1/4th cup Quinoa
2. Broccoli about 200 gms
3. Handful of rocket salad
4. Handful of finely chopped Spring cabbage, regular green cabbage also works well
5. Half a red onion
6. 1 large clove of garlic of 2 small. 
7. Chilli infused rapeseed oil. Regular rapeseed oil is good too , you can put some chilli flakes while cooking or some red chilli. 
8. Some ginger finely chopped. 
9. 4-5 cherry tomatoes
10. You can add kale too just finely chop some kale. I have not used it in this salad, but it will taste quite nice. 
11. Salt and pepper to taste. 

Prep:

1. Cook the quinoa, before you start preparing all the salads. While you cut and cook the quinoa will cook on the side. Multitasking helps 😃
2. Steam the broccoli or cook it in microwave with some water and covered for 5 mins, I like it to be crunchy, you can cook it the way you like it
3. Finely chop the cabbage. 
4. Thinly slice the onion into long strips. 
5. Thinly slice the garlic and ginger
6. Cut cherry tomatoes in half. 
7. Lemon just a squeeze. 

Let's put all of it together:

1. In a nice roomy pan add some oil, what ever you are using. 
2. Throw in the garlic, ginger and onion. Cook them until they are translucent not brown. 
3. Add the broccoli and cabbage, quinoa, add the salt and pepper and let everything cook for 2-3 mins 
4. Turn off the heat and add the rocket and tomatoes and let them warm through. 
5. Squeeze some lemon to freshen up everything. 
6. That's it you have a nice steaming hot and healthy salad. 

Trust me this will get you in the mood of eating salads more often. Experiment with colours, textures, tastes.  Add a bit of fruit, seeds and nuts to make your salads interesting. Sky is the limit when you are putting salads together. Hope you enjoy this one 😃