Power Salad

A little cafe up the road from where I work has this amazing energy salad on the menu. For a while there I would head over about 2-3 times a week and invariably end up ordering it. It is a very simple salad and incredibly easy to put together so I have started making it myself. 

The recipe below is for one serving and can easily be scaled up. I usually cook a cup of dry red quinoa and refrigerate it to use over 3-4 days. When I am ready to make the salad, I just measure out for as many servings as I am making. 

I find that just about any basic vinaigrette works well with this salad. The star of the show here is the hot smoked salmon. I am using peppered hot smoked salmon which gives it a bit more oomph but it is also very good with plain smoked salmon. 

Yield - 1 serving
Time - 20 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 Cup cooked Red Quinoa

1/2 Finely chopped Broccoli

1/2 Finely chopped Kale

2 Tablespoons toasted sunflower seeds

75 grams Hot smoked Salmon

1/3 cup Basic vinaigrette

Method

1. Cook the red quinoa. Rinse the dry quinoa thoroughly until the water runs clear and cook it in 1:2 ratio of quinoa to water. It takes about 15-20 minutes and fluff with a fork.

Finely chop the broccoli

Finely chop the Kale leaves

To assemble the salad, add 1/2 a cup of cooked quinoa in a bowl.

Add the Kale leaves

Add the broccoli and the toasted sunflower seeds.

Roughly shred the hot smoked salmon with your hands. Drizzle vinaigrette over the salad and tuck in!