Quinoa Salad Recipe with Asparagus and Strawberries with Balsamico

Name: Quinoa Salad with Asparagus, Strawberries and Balsamico
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: quinoa 200 g; Vegetable broth 400 ml; strawberries 200 g; green asparagus 1 bunch; Salt; Pepper; brown sugar; lemon juice; oliv oil; mint 1/4 bunch; Orange 1 pc; Dijon mustard 1 tsp; agave syrup 3 pinch; Pepper 3 pinch; curry 1/2 tsp; Sugar 4 pinch; oliv oil 50-80 ml; balsamico 150 ml; Salt 2 pinch; Pepper 3 pinch

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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Today I’ll show you my quinoa salad recipe.

At the moment asparagus and strawberries fit perfectly into the salad.

Depending on the market offer and season, you can use other vegetables for the salad.

Let yourself be inspired by the following…

Table of Contents

1. Recipe Quinoa Salad
2. Nutritional Values
3. Vegetable Variants for Quinoa Salad
4. Ideas for Balsamic Vinegar and Strawberries
5. Ideas for Quinoa Salad Dressing
6. Other Ideas

1. Recipe Quinoa Salad

Now let yourself be carried away to cooking yourself and conjure up a great dish.

Questions I answer to you gladly over the comment function at the end of the side.

Good luck!

Quinoa Salad with Asparagus, Strawberries and Balsamico

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 2

Calories 430

Total Time 35 Min.

Preparation Time 20 Min.

Cook Time 15 Min.

Simple guide to prepare quinoa salad.

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Ingredients

Quinoa Salad Ingredients
200	g	quinoa
400	ml	Vegetable broth
200	g	strawberries (I like to use local strawberries!)
1	bunch	green asparagus
		Salt
		Pepper (I like to use pepper black or green)
		brown sugar
		lemon juice
		oliv oil
1/4	bunch	mint (fresh mint)
Ingredients Orange Juice Curry Dressing
1	pc	Orange
1	tsp	Dijon mustard
3	pinch	agave syrup
3	pinch	Pepper
1/2	tsp	curry (I like to use Madras Curry)
4	pinch	Sugar (I also like to use 1 teaspoon honey)
50-80	ml	oliv oil
Ingredients for Balsamico Reduction
150	ml	balsamico (I use a matured balsamic vinegar 10 years old.)
2	pinch	Salt (Test the guide value according to the balsamic vinegar!)
3	pinch	Pepper

Instruction

Quinoa salad ingredients asparagus, strawberries on a kitchen board. — Ingredients for the quinoa salad.

Provide ingredients

Prepare the ingredients for preparation:

Wash the strawberries briefly and dry them.

Now wash the green asparagus and peel them on the underside, and make the remaining ingredients ready to hand as indicated above.

Wash quinoa

Wash the quinoa on a sieve under warm running water.

Boil the quinoa in salted water. — Cooking quinoa

Quinoa cooking

Add double the amount of water to the quinoa, season with salt, bring to the boil and let it swell over a moderate heat.

Then drain the quinoa and place in a bowl.

Founder asparagus while cooking in the pot. — Step picture Peel the asparagus and cook the asparagus.

Asparagus cooking

For the asparagus, bring water to the boil and season with salt, pepper, sugar and olive oil.

Place the peeled asparagus in the pan and cook for about 6-8 minutes until al dente.

Remove the asparagus and place in a grill pan.

Squeeze orange juice

Squeeze the orange with a juicer.

Prepare the orange juice dressing — Orange juice with mustard, sugar, salt and olive oil

Prepare dressing

Put orange juice with Dijon mustard, sugar, salt and pepper and curry in a bowl.

Mix the orange juice dressing with the whisk. — Mix the orange juice dressing, slowly stir in the olive oil.

Mix Dressing

Mix the ingredients and let the olive oil run in slowly.

The result is an emulsified salad dressing.

Prepare the orange juice curry salad dressing for marinating.

Ready-made balsamic vinegar reduction. — Balsamic vinegar boiled down in a saucepan. this balsamic sauce is also called balsamic ice cream.

Prepare vinegar

Cook the balsamic vinegar in a saucepan at high heat until half of it is done, season to taste with salt and pepper.

Allow balsamic vinegar reduction to cool.

Grilling green asparagus in the pan. — Asparagus while grilling.

Grill asparagus

Grill the prepared, cooked asparagus in the ribbed grill pan over a high heat.

Season the asparagus spears with salt, pepper and a little sugar to taste.

Remove the asparagus from the pan.

Cut asparagus and strawberries for salad. — Cut the remaining strawberries and grilled spragula.

Prepare vegetables

Cut the grilled asparagus and strawberries into small pieces for the salad.

Now cut the strawberries into quarters.

Place some asparagus tips for decoration.

Strawberry with balsamic vinegar — Strawberries with balsamic ice cream promise a real strawberry delight!

Glace strawberries

Spread the cooled balsamicoglace on one side of the prepared strawberries.

Serve the quinoa salad with strawberries and asparagus. — Arrange the quinoa salad.

Finish salad

Marinate the quinoa with 2/3 of the prepared orange juice curry dressing.

Arrange the quinoa on plates.

Marinate the asparagus with the rest of the salad dressing and serve with it.

Place the strawberries in the quinoa salad.

Decorate with the mint and serve.

2. Nutritional Values

3. Vegetable Variants for Quinoa Salad

For example fennel and orange in winter… Zucchini and tomatoes in summer… Pumpkin and pumpkin seeds in autumn…

Fennel slices in the grill pan — Fennel slices can be roasted very well in a grill pan.

Orange fillets on kitchen board — Freshly cut orange fillets

Fried zucchini slices — zucchini vegetables served as zucchini slices in a plate.

4. Ideas for Balsamic Vinegar and Strawberries

Back to the quinoa salad variant with asparagus and strawberries:

Today there is balsamic vinegar with the strawberries and I prepare a balsamic vinegar reduction.

This is balsamic vinegar, which gives the strawberries a great taste kick and sticks well to the fruits.

Strawberries with balsamic vinegar promise real strawberry happiness! The balsamic vinegar reduction tastes strong and can be spread on the fruits. © Thomas Sixt Food Photographer