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Warm Quinoa Salad with Grilled Paneer

A warm salad made with quinoa, capsicum, jalapenos and grilled cottage cheese. This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel

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Warm Quinoa Salad with Grilled Paneer
Main Ingredients Quinoa, Cottage Cheese
Cuisine Fusion
Course Salads
Prep Time 0-5 minutes
Cook time 16-20 minutes
Serve 4
Taste Spicy
Level of Cooking Moderate
Others Veg
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Ingredients list for Warm Quinoa Salad with Grilled Paneer

  • 1 cup Quinoa
  • 150 grams Cottage Cheese
  • 2 tablespoons Olive oil
  • 2 cups Vegetable stock
  • to taste Salt
  • to taste Crushed black peppercorns
  • 1/2 large Green capsicum
  • 1/2 medium Onion
  • 8-10 Pickled jalapenos roughly chopped
  • 4-5 Fresh curly parsley sprigs
  • Juice of ½ lemon

Method

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  1. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a deep non-stick pan, add quinoa and saute till golden. Add vegetable stock, salt, crushed peppercorns and mix well. Cover and cook till the quinoa is fully done.
  2. Cut capsicum and onion into ½ inch pieces.
  3. Heat ½ tbsp olive oil in a non-stick grill pan, add onion and capsicum pieces, salt and crushed peppercorns and sauté till soft. Transfer into a large bowl. Place the grill pan back on heat, add remaining olive oil.
  4. Cut cottage cheese into half inch thick slices and place them on the hot grill pan, sprinkle salt and pepper and grill, turning sides, till grill marks appear all around.
  5. Add pickled jalapenos to the bowl of onion and capsicum.
  6. Roughly chop parsley sprigs.
  7. Add the quinoa to the same bowl. Add lemon juice and parsley and mix well.
  8. Transfer the salad onto a serving plate, top with grilled cottage cheese slices and serve immediately.

Nutrition Info

Calories 1427
Carbohydrates 142.6
Protein 44.7
Fat 75.3
Other Fiber Vitamin C- 100.6mg
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