Grilled vegetables are tossed with quinoa in a lemony vinaigrette to make up a flavorful bowl of grilled vegetable quinoa salad. It's a vegan and gluten-free salad.
Get your veggie grilling on and make this salad. It’s perfect to serve to your family or to bring to your next pot luck. Here is what you will need to make this grilled veggie quinoa salad: quinoa, zucchini, red bell pepper, portobello mushrooms, red onion, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, Dijon mustard and sea salt.
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This veggie quinoa salad is full of flavor,it's portable and the perfect solution to bring to pot lucks and picnics. You can also make this for your family and serve as a side dish or a main meal. It’s a super easy salad to make especially when I use my new kitchen toy, the Hamilton Beach® Indoor Searing Grill to cook the veggies for this salad.
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Here is how to make Grilled Vegetable quinoa salad
Please note that this is a list of steps to give you an idea of how to make this recipe. Full details are in the recipe card below.
- Heat the grill
- Cook the quinoa
- While the quinoa is cooking, brush the vegetables with garlic and oil
- Place the vegetables on the pre-heated grill and grill them
- Once vegetables are cooked chop them into bite-sized pieces and add them to a bowl
- Once the quinoa has cooked add it to the bowl with the vegetables
- Mix up the dressing and pour it over the salad and stir
Total Estimated Time Start to Finish approximately 30 to 40 minutes
Tips and Variations for Making Grilled Vegetable Quinoa Salad
Tips
- The best quinoa to use is red or white, which are the two most popular colors of quinoa. White is the is the fastest cooking, and red quinoa takes a few minutes longer. Red quinoa is a bit more chewy and nutty in flavor. You can use both for a more colorful salad. Cook ½ cup of each and mix them together after they are cooked.
- Rinse the quinoa to remove quinoa’s outer coating which is called saponin and can give it a bitter flavor. Although there is a good chance that quinoa has been pre-rinsed, it doesn't hurt to run it under water before cooking.
- Cut the vegetables into similar sized pieces before cooking which will allow even cooking.
- Leave the skin on the zucchini, it will be easier to grill and the skin adds flavor and nutrition.
Variations
This is a salad that you can customize to your taste. Swap out or add in any of the following:
- Chopped veggies such as tomatoes, eggplant, yellow squash, grilled asparagus, or olives
- Add in feta, Parmesan or goat cheese
- For a cheesy vegan version sprinkle in 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
Serve Your Grilled Veggie Quinoa Salad with
- Grilled chicken Breasts with Strawberry Balsamic Salsa
- Balsamic Caprese Chicken Burger
- Tuna Steaks with Strawberry Mango Salsa
Vegetable Quinoa Salad
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 Medium zucchini sliced lengthwise
- 1 Red bell Pepper cut into 2 in strips
- 1 Small to medium sized red onion sliced thick
- 1 large portobello mushroom cap
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa
- Dressing
- 1 ½ tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 Tablespoon dijon mustard
- 1 clove garlic
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- a pinch of sea salt
Instructions
- Heat the grill to medium to high heat
- Cook the quinoa according to package instructions
- While the quinoa is cooking, brush the vegetables with olive oil and place on the grill
- Cook for the vegetables on the grill for approximately 5 minutes and flip them over and cook for 4 to 6 minutes more, until they become tender.
- Remove the vegetables from the heat and cut into bite-sized pieces and add them to a bowl
- Once the quinoa has cooked add it to the bowl with the vegetables
- Mix up the Dressing and pour it over the ingredients in a bowl
This salad looks delicious!
I love how grilling just transforms veggies! What a delicious sounding salad.
Grilling veggies brings out so much flavor, I bet they are delicious with this!
I love grilling asparagus, the flavor is wonderful!