This gluten free quinoa salad recipe is inspired by vegetarian Italian antipasto salad ingredients: artichoke hearts, olives, capers, and pickled peppers. Garnish quinoa salad with feta cheese.
Quinoa Salad with Artichokes and Feta Cheese Is Versatile
Don't like one of the ingredients in this quinoa salad? Cool. Leave it out or substitute with something you love. Try tomatoes, green olives, rosemary, red peppers, etc...
Substitute Parmesan cheese if you're not into feta cheese.
Use red, white, or tri-color quinoa for this cold quinoa salad.
Reserve some extra chopped parsley and use it as an garnish for this colorful and light quinoa salad with feta cheese and artichokes.
Quinoa Salad with Feta Cheese and Artichoke Hearts
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This gluten free quinoa salad recipe is inspired by vegetarian Italian antipasto salad ingredients: artichoke hearts, olives, capers, and pickled peppers. Garnish quinoa salad with a little feta cheese.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 5
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Mediterranean
- Diet: Gluten Free, Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked red or white quinoa
- 1 ¾ cup water
- 1 cup canned artichoke hearts, diced
- ⅓ cup pepperoncini, diced (these are spicy, go less if you don't like 'em)
- ⅔ cup sun dried tomatoes, diced
- ½ cup Kalamata olives, diced
- 2 tablespoon capers, drained
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ cup parsley, chopped
- ¾ cup feta, crumbled optional as garnish
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil in a medium sized pot. Add quinoa, stir, reduce heat to a simmer, and cook covered ~ 18 minutes or until tender and water is cooked off.
- Remove from heat, uncover and let sit 5 minutes.
- Place quinoa in a large bowl and stick in the refrigerator to cool down before adding remaining ingredients.
- Mix in remaining ingredients, except feta, to cooled quinoa. Garnish with crumbled feta. Happy Eating!
Notes
Reserve some extra chopped parsley and use it as an extra garnish for color.
Things In My Kitchen:
- Scraper / Chopper for "scrapping up" the ingredients and easily transferring them to the quinoa bowl. I use this all the time for veg. prep.
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Serving Suggestion
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