Quinoa with Pumpkin, Zucchini and Walnuts
Light, delicious and very healthy salad. Perfect on its own or as a side dish with chicken and fish.
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Ingredients
Check off each ingredient as you cook.
Let's make it.
- Directions
- Cook quinoa according to the package instructions.
- Cut the pumpkin and zucchini to cubes
- Heat 1 tbsp olive oil and fry vegetables on a medium heat.
- Sprinkle with cumin, salt and pepper, add garlic and walnuts. Continue frying until soft, but not mashy.
- Add vegetables to quinoa.
- Mix lemon juice with 2 tbsp.olive oil, add to the salad and mix.
- Serve warm
Recipe story, photos & original notes
I know that we can cook with pumpkin all year around even if it's not the fresh pumpkin but the pumpkin puree, but for some reason I mostly cook with it in the fall. All the stores suddenly get filled with beautiful colorful pumpkins and I have to take one home. I find that learn to love pumpkin more and more and make dishes with it every year. Some of them become family favorites, like Pumpkin Pancakes with Parmesan and Pumpkin Cheesecake with Maple syrup and Pecans. We also fell in love with the new recipe I tried this year Pumpkin Cake with oranges and walnuts.
In my constant search for new healthy and tasty recipes for my family, I came up with this Quinoa recipe with Pumpkin, Zucchini and Walnuts. It's light, tasty, colorful and really good for you.
Ingredients
1 cup Quinoa
200 gr pumpkin, peeled and clean from seeds
1 zucchini, peeled
2 garlic cloves, squeezed
1+2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
salt, pepper to taste
2 tbsp. lemon juice
Directions
Cook quinoa according to the package instructions.
Cut the pumpkin and zucchini to cubes
Heat 1 tbsp olive oil and fry vegetables on a medium heat.
Sprinkle with cumin, salt and pepper, add garlic and walnuts. Continue frying until soft, but not mashy.
Add vegetables to quinoa.
Mix lemon juice with 2 tbsp.olive oil, add to the salad and mix.
Serve warm.
