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Quinoa Recipe
Salad With Sweet Potato

You'll love this delicious yet so easy quinoa recipe. It's a salad with roasted sweet potato and grape tomatoes. Sensational!



This recipe is made from our favorite food - yams or sweet potato, so sweet and yummy and tossed into the healthy super grain, Quinoa.

I just love easy recipes just like this where it takes no effort at all to whip up a delicious healthy meal.



Rating: Very Easy
Hands-On Time: 30 minutes
Hands-Off Time: 0 minutes
Ingredients: 5
Steps: 3

Ingredients For Quinoa With Sweet Potato





  • Equipment: A lovely salad bowl, roasting pan, saucepan
  • Quinoa grains
  • Water
  • Stock powder
  • Yam
  • Grape Tomatoes
  • Lemon juice, salt & pepper to taste



Step 1: Cooking Quinoa Perfectly


Click on the button to learn how to cook the grains perfectly.

The illustrated recipe tutorial will teach you how to produce quinoa that is not gluggy, a common problem.








Step 2: Roast the Yams to perfection


Click on the button to learn how to roast sweet potato for this recipe with quinoa. Do this while the quinoa's cooking.



Step 3: Final Step for this Recipe
Quinoa Salad


Now for the final step.

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Learn How


Doesn't this look just sensational!



This Quinoa Salad Goes Perfectly With...

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Quinoa Recipe With Roasted Yams

Makes sufficient for a 8 servings of sides.

Just Add Step 1: Cook Quinoa
• 1 cup of quinoa grains

• 2 1/2 cups water

• 2 heaped ts stock powder



• Place the grains in a saucepan, add water and stock powder

• Bring to boil then reduce to simmer till the liquid is absorbed

• Leave covered for a further 5 - 10 minutes

• Fluff cooked quinoa lightly with a fork
Just Add Step 2: Roast Sweet Potato
• Sweet potato about 5 - 6 inches long

• 2 tbs cooking oil

• salt & pepper to taste



• Preheat oven to 390F/200C

• Peel the tuber, rinse and cut into 1 inch thick slices

• Roll the slices in the oil with salt and pepper to coat thoroughly

• Place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 20 minutes till it's soft but still just a little firm in the center. That is, don't overcook the yams

• Cool, then dice into small chunks
Just Add Step 3: Make the Salad
• Roasted Yams

• Cooked quinoa

• 10 grape or cherry tomatoes

• 1 ts lemon juice

• (Optional) 1/4 cup goats cheese, diced
• Halve the little grape or cherry tomatoes lengthwise

• Toss the cooked and fluffed quinoa, diced roasted tubers and tomatoes into a salad bowl

• Sprinkle with lemon juice

• Lightly toss to combine the ingredients and seasoning

• If you have goats cheese or a little feta cheese in your refrigerator, crumble some over the salad

• Serve immediately



Enjoy this fabulous quinoa recipe. It's another from our collection of simple to make recipes and it really is just fabulous!







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