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Detox vegan quinoa salad
This vegan detox quinoa avocado salad recipe with herbs is filling, satisfying and an notable healthy lunch idea! The salad's filled with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxifying foods and can be served as a…
Aaaand all our life, we prayed for someone like you….And by you we think KC & Jojo meant this notable detox quinoa salad recipe. We bet.
This healthy quinoa salad is filling, satisfying and a pretty notable lunch idea! It’s filled with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxifying foods, but it’s good enough to be on your weekly meal plan for the entire family as a healthy vegetable side dish at dinner or lunch.
And we're saying this, after we've hated on quinoa for quite a while. We think it was its undeniable fame that got us so jealous.
But can you judge us – we remember at some point quinoa was everywhere and everyone was loving it. More than McD. It all made us want to roll our eyes, punch the screen, punch the author of the recipe in the nuts and run like the wind. We thought to myself – “Quinoa, you greedy bastard, you’re not getting a cent from us”.
Here we are. It took years, a tasty soup and a few spoons of this salad (yes, we ate this salad with a spoon like an animal) for us to get over our jealousy and finally surrender to this fluffy yet crunchy nutritious Peruvian seducer. Feeling like the happiest sellout right now. Totally worth it.
Health and Beauty Benefits
This salad has HEALTH & BEAUTY written all over it.
- high in collagen-building Vitamin C
- rejuvenating Vitamin A
- sun-protective Vitamin E
- toxin-cleaning fiber
- good source of iron and protein
And it’s so freakin’ satisfying. This salad fights free radicals and inflammation like Superman fights Batman, supports the liver at detoxification, sparks the brilliance of your mind and makes your skin look like silk. You might think that’s exaggerating – it’s understating the goodness of this quinoa avocado salad.
Together these ingredients can fight evil around the globe. And your taste buds won’t have to suffer because this salad is light, satisfying, satisfying, made in just about 10 minutes and once you make it – you’ll keep making it every single day because it also brings a dose of addiction along with health.
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This recipe was originally published in the beginning of 2016, updated with new images and tips in May 2021 and again in August 2025.
- Yield: 4 servings
- Prep: 20 minutes
- Total: 40 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- 1 pepper, green or red
- ½ cup olives, pitted
- 1 spring onion, chopped
- ½ cup tomatoes, chopped
- 1 avocado
- ½ cup arugula
- ½ cup parsley, chopped
- 7-8 leaves basil
- 1 tsp vinegar
- ½ lemon, juice of
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- salt to taste
Method
- If you don't have cooked quinoa - cook it to label instructions and let it cool off.
- Chop all vegetables thinly (tomatoes, avocados, onions, peppers, olives, arugula, parsley, basil).
- Place the quinoa and chopped vegetables in a big bowl.
- Add lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil and mix everything well together. Add salt to taste (a small pinch should be enough, since the olives are also salty).
- Store in an airtight food container for a healthy lunch to bring to the office. It will be good for up to 24 hours if stored in the fridge (this also depends on how fresh your vegetables are).
