When most people think of diet food, the word “salad” tends to spring to mind. Then come the references to rabbit food, and thoughts of deprivation and large padlocks across the refrigerator lead most people to dive into the leftover helping of pepperoni pizza. Yeah, been there. But healthy eating doesn’t need to be boring. Let’s get something straight. Yes, I may have lost a good chunk of weight over the past six months, but I love to eat. If a meal doesn’t have good flavor, I don’t feel satisfied and that’s where the trouble starts. For me, maintaining a healthy eating lifestyle means using a large variety of whole grains (such as quinoa), fresh and dried herbs, flavorful protein (like shrimp) and healthy fats (think avocado).
I like salads with lots of “goodies” – nuts, veggies, chicken, seafood, pasta, quinoa, dried fruit. If it’s in the fridge or pantry, it’s fair game. In the past, the one thing that stopped me from making salad every day was washing the greens. Am I the only one who can’t stand washing lettuce? I have no idea why. It’s just the way it is.
Now I limit the pain to one to two times per week. I throw the lettuce, cut into bite-sized pieces into my OXO salad spinner (love that thing – more about it in the giveaway section at the end), wash it and spin it dry within a couple of minutes. Wrapped in paper towel and stored in a resealable plastic bag in the fridge, the lettuce stays perky and fresh for 4 to 5 days. All I have to do is reach in and grab a handful or two whenever I want to throw together a salad. Throw in some veggies that are quickly sliced on the OXO hand-held mandoline slicer and voila – a beautiful, healthy salad. Painful to painless.
The dressing is light and fragrant, with a lemony touch of spring and an herbaceous flavor from dried oregano. You may not need all of the dressing. Add about two-thirds of it, then taste to determine if you would like to add more.
The recipe:
Wash and spin four large Boston lettuce leaves.
In a fine-mesh strainer, rinse quinoa well and drain.
In a medium pot, combine quinoa and water. Bring to a boil, then cover and turn heat to low. Cook until all the water is absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the heat, fluff the quinoa and transfer to a cookie sheet, spreading the quinoa in a thin layer, to cool.
Set a large saucepan of lightly salted water over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil. Add shrimp and cook until shrimp turn pink, 45 seconds to 1 minute.
Drain and immediately plunge the shrimp into ice water to stop the shrimp from cooking further.
In a medium bowl, mix together quinoa, shrimp, tomatoes and avocado.
For the dressing, whisk together lemon juice honey, oregano, salt and pepper. Slowly whisk in olive oil.
Toss the dressing (you may not need all of it) with the quinoa mixture. Gently stir in Myzithra (or feta) cheese. Divide the quinoa salad between 4 Boston lettuce leaves, using the lettuce as a bowl. Serve.
Other quinoa salads:
Cookin’ Canuck’s Quinoa with Orange & Cumin Dressing
Cookin’ Canuck’s Quinoa with Blacks Beans, Corn & Chipotle, Lime & Honey Dressing
The Church Cook’s Red Quinoa, Black Bean & Bell Pepper Salad
Two Peas and Their Pod’s Spinach Quinoa Salad with Roasted Grapes, Pears & Almonds
With Style & Grace’s Kale Salad with Lemon Chicken & Quinoa
The giveaway:
This giveaway is now closed.
For a chance to win these wonderful salad tools from OXO, just leave a comment on this post. Read below for instructions on earning extra entries. This giveaway is now closed.
Here are the items included in the giveaway (approximate value $45 USD):
Green salad spinner – This was rated the number one salad spinner by Cook’s Illustrated. It works like a dream!
Hand-held mandoline slicer – The sharp blade of this slicer can cut vegetables into three different thicknesses. Either slice over a plate or clip the mandoline over a bowl. Either way, this handy tool makes quick work of slicing!
This giveaway is open to residents of the United States and will be open until Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 5pm PST.
The winner will be chosen using a random number generator and will be notified via email, so please make sure your email address is correct. You will have 48 hours to respond to me, or a new winner will be chosen.
To earn additional entries, leave separate comments for each of the steps listed below. If you don’t leave separate comments for each step, the number generator will not count them as separate entries. If you already follow/”like” OXO or Cookin’ Canuck, just let me know that in your comments.
1. Follow OXO on Twitter.
2. Follow Cookin’ Canuck on Twitter.
3. Tweet about this giveaway, including my Twitter handle. Here’s an example: Head to @CookinCanuck for some Lettuce Cups w/Shrimp, Quinoa & Avocado an awesome @OXO giveaway. http://bit.ly/zyZZgi
4. “Like” OXO on Facebook.
5. “Like”Cookin’ Canuck on Facebook.
6. Share on your Facebook page and leave me the link.
7. Follow Cookin’ Canuck on Pinterest.
Good luck!
From the kitchen of Cookin' Canuck. www.cookincanuck.com
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup quinoa
- 1 cup water
- 3/4 lb. large raw shrimp, peeled
- 1 medium tomato , cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 small avocado, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 oz. Myzithra (or feta) cheese, crumbled
- 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 3/4 tsp honey
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 large Boston lettuce leaves
Instructions
- In a fine-mesh strainer, rinse quinoa well and drain.
- In a medium pot, combine quinoa and water. Bring to a boil, then cover and turn heat to low. Cook until all the water is absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the heat, fluff the quinoa and transfer to a cookie sheet, spreading the quinoa in a thin layer, to cool.
- Set a large saucepan of lightly salted water over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil. Add shrimp and cook until shrimp turn pink, 45 seconds to 1 minute.
- Drain and immediately plunge the shrimp into ice water to stop the shrimp from cooking further.
- In a medium bowl, mix together quinoa, shrimp, tomatoes and avocado.
- Whisk together lemon juice, honey, oregano, salt and pepper. Slowly whisk in olive oil.
- Toss the dressing with the quinoa mixture. Gently stir in Myzithra (or feta) cheese. Divide the quinoa salad between 4 Boston lettuce leaves, using the lettuce as a bowl. Serve.
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by OXO and they supplied me with some OXO products for my personal use and the giveaway. As usual, all opinions are my own. What can I say? I’m an OXO fan.
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I’ve been loving quinoa lately- yum!
This is definitely MY kind of health food – ones that are full of flavor!
I’ll definitely try this recipe for dinner this week!
This recipe sounds and looks yummy!
This is such a great giveaway! Awesome.
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So nice and quick
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This recipe looks great!
I can’t wait to try this recipe. Your blog is awesome.
Hey lady, your salad looks delicious. It’s starting to warm up really quickly here, so I’ve naturally been putting away the soup recipes and am looking forward to salads. As a side note, I have forwarded your website on to my mom who I think could use a little help with motivation in the fitness/weight-loss realm. I think she will find your site a huge inspiration.
I stopped labeling my food good or bad or healthy or diet about 5 years ago. Most food is is wonderful – what matters is how you prepare it and how much of it you consume. This salad looks really good.
I’ve been eating a lot of quinoa lately and this recipe is exactly the kind of thing I need.
I love meals like this – this looks so refreshing but hearty. Now I’ve got lunch settled for one day this week, at least!
That salad spinner looks pretty awesome! I was just thinking about getting one the other day! And that salad looks delish!
That looks so delicious!
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This salad looks so great!
This is my kind of meal! Light and quick.
This salad looks so yummy!
This is my kind of salad! As much as I love just green salads, I love one like this that leaves me feeling so full and satisfied.
Salad tastes so much better in a cup..ha! Fun recipe! And I love that green salad spinner:)
Would love to win this! Your salad looks gorgeous!
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This looks fantastic Dara!! Love eating salad from little cups like this!! xoxo
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I love shrimp & avocado together and the quinoa is the perfect addition!
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I have seen so many quinoa recipes. This one makes me want to run right out and buy it! It looks so good! It will be on next weeks menu! Thanks!!
What a great idea to use quinoa and shrimp in lettuce cups! Sounds delish. (I have a salad spinner and a mandoline so you don’t have to enter me in the giveaway. Love my OXO salad spinner!)
Mmmmm- you come up with the most healthy and beautiful meals! I like to eat too- we’ve turned a corner “as a family” today and will be making more things like this!
thanks for the recipe! Just started my new diet today, will be us eating this a couple times a week!
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Ohh this sounds so delicious! Definitely will be making this salad this week!
I follow you on facebook! I am always looking for new HEALTHY recipes! The ones that look good are sometimes few and far between! Thanks for you blog!
I absolutely love quinoa! I, too love to eat flavorful healthy foods! Thank you for all you do!
This is my kind of salad, I love everything about it! I have an OXO stainless steel mandolin and I love it! I would love to have a salad spinner too.
I’ve been trying to eat more salads. This looks great!
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This dressing sounds amazing, will have to try it. I make a similar salad but I also add strawberries or pomegranate seeds. I also switch up the feta with a honey goat cheese. I think your dressing will go great with it.
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These look super tasty and healthy! What a fun idea
Yum! These look awesome! Definitely will have to make them soon
This looks perfect-so light and delicious, can’t wait to try it!
Love this salad. I’m all about healthy, fresh and flavorful! I liked OXO on twitter, crossing my fingers because I hate washing lettuce too.
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Thanks for the delicious quinoa recipe! I would LOVE to win the OXO salad spinner!!
So delicious! I am pinning this for dinner!
Wish I had a chance to win
Good luck everyone or the one! 
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I also printed the recipe!
I hope I remember this recipe this summer. I’m thinking perhaps I will try it with lobster.
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I’ve been looking for ways to experiment with quinoa. This looks great!
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Would not have thought to pair these together looks yummy
Sounds so good and easy to make.
I’ve wanted my own mandoline for the longest time!!!
I happened to find this blog on OXO on Facebook. The salad looks great–especially with instructions on the quinoa. I have seen but did not know if I could actually use. I am now going to try. Thanks.
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I love shrimp, tomatoes, and avocados–the recipe sounds delicious! Thanks for the giveaway.
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I really love salads, rabbit food or not! I never thought to spread the quinoa out while it cools – I always just let it cool in the bowl and then wondered why it was clumpy. Now I know…
Love your recipe.
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I’ll be trying this recipe soon! I love shrimp & avocado. I knoe quinoa is a healthy food. I need the OXO salad spinner.
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Mmm!! This looks yummy. I wonder how it would taste with chicken.
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Looks and sounds delish! Would love to have the Oxo Mandoline Slicer!
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this looks super good!!
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I agree; healthy eating doesn’t need to be boring. Thanks for the recipe.
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Thanks for the Recipe, looks good enough to eat!
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Will try this recipe tonight.
If your healthy eating is boring, you’re not doing it right!!! Find the right recipes, punch it up.
That’s very true, Mary Ann and that was exactly my point!
I needed to go to the store tonight anyway, so now I’ll just add shrimp/avocado/feta to my list and I’ll be good to go! Sounds delicious!
can’t wait to try this. never had quinoa before but looks quick and easy and yummy!
omg love this recipe!! Yum and great giveaway!
Never have I ever craved a *salad.* This looks delicious!!
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This recipe looks fabulous. Cannot wait to try it.
I love salads but then the lettuce really is just a placeholder for the good stuff. I’ve found I enjoying fruit with my salads more than tomatoes lately with a more savory (or at least balsamic) twist.
THIS looks divine Dara. I too often don’t think of putting the salads I make on my blog since I usually just put together a hodge podge of ingredients. My friends insist I should and maybe this will be an impetus for me that they really can look enticing!
I am going to try this. We have been doing a family lifestyle makeover since January. We have lost over 55 lbs as a group. Always looking for filling and not not boring meals. Harder to eat healthy if you dont like what you are putting in your mouth.
I love salads! This recipe is a must try! Thanks for the giveaway
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Love OXO kitchen utensils; this recipe sounds delicious, nutritious and fun too ! Thank you
Great looking salad love quinoa!!!
Nothing more delicious than a new tool in the kitchen !
Looks delicious!
I couldn’t agree more that food, even healthy food, can and must be tasty. There are so many healthful ways to add flavor! I don’t cook shrimp often as I’m no so keen on it but Pete would totally dig these wraps!
Love the blog and the salad spinner!
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I’ve always wanted a mandoline slicer!
Love your blog & recipes … also Oxo products. This recipe with quinoa is full of some of my favorite stuff! Thanks for posting it.
I just recently started eating quinoa and I’m loving it!
I enjoy quinoa salad, love your addition of shrimp and avocado!!
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this recipe sounds delicious! printed and will make sometime soon (after the next trip to the store). Love love love quinoa!
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We eat a lot of quinoa, and I’m always interested in new recipes. Tonight is quinoa with curry and wild rice in a vegetable stock, and baked cod. I’m so excited to see this webpage-thanks
This recipe is nothing short of exquisite!
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That salad seems easy to make and yummy. I love salad with shrimp.
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This does look extremely yummy! Did all of the above. Here’s my link I shared, https://www.facebook.com/katherine.zacharias
I’m always looking for new salad ideas and this one looks like a winner.
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I already like you on Facebook, Dara (and here!) That salad spinner looks like a winner, even if I’m not.
Great recipe!
I love how light and healthy this sounds and looks! Great ingredients and thanks for the fun giveaway!
I was really excited to see this recipe. Back in September I went to a blogger trip in Sonoma and one day for lunch they served us a quinoa salad with a lemon based dressing that was out of this world. I have never stopped thinking about and how to recreate it. I think your dressing might be it. I can’t wait to try it and relive the memory. Thanks!
That does look good! All of the ingredients are my favorites – quinoa, shrimp, avocado, feta – yum. Can’t wait to try it!
This recipe looks great! And, what an awesome giveaway. I’ve been wanting one of these salad spinners for quite some time.
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Awesome giveaway. Can’t wait to try the recipe too.
Salad spinners rule as does this salad!! Love lots of goodies in my salads too & never, ever deprivation over here either!
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The receipe looks good but I could really use the salad spinner. Thanks for the opportunity.
I know what you mean about washing lettuce by hand. I’m really needing a salad spinner. I don’t know why I haven’t bought one. I should add it to my wish list.
Would love to win this
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I’m a diligent follower of your blog! I have so many of your recipes in my recipe binder. Keep up the beautiful work!
This is my kind of healthy meal! Looks just delicious.
I love OXO products and really need a new salad spinner! This salad sounds exactly like the kind of thing I would love to eat every day!! Thanks.
I love salads but eat less of them because I dislike washing my greens. Shaking lettuce leaves and drying with paper towels is a pain. This recipe sounds and looks delish
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Always happy to find a new quinoa salad recipe, thanks!!
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Great post Dara! Shrimp and avocado are two of my most favorite food combinations and I love how you paired it with quinoa in an edible lettuce cup. I have the same green OXO salad spinner and love it {but like you, don’t love washing greens!}. Thank you for sharing such a great recipe!
Wow now im hungry
I’m not a huge shrimp fan, so I’d probably make this with chicken. Thanks for sharing!
Changing eating habits in 2012 – down 14 lbs and eating alot of salads – would love a spinner just as I love following the Cookin’ Canuck
Just discovered quinoa last summer and it has quickly become a staple food in my house. Constantly looking for new, exciting recipes and this one sounds just perfect. Thank you.
Thanks for the healthy recipe.
What a beautiful salad and awesome giveaway. Just in time for Spring.
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Oh my gosh, I could totally use these. We eat a ton of salad and I need a spinner and who can’t use a mandoline? Lovely stuff. Thanks.
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full of comments. this is so great! ♥ your recipe so much.
Morning Dara!
Great recipe. I love quinoa and am always looking for new recipes.
It would be so nice to have a salad spinner.
This one looks a winner.
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I love your healthy recipes!
Looks delicious!
Would love to have a salad spinner!
I actually have some Boston lettuce sitting in the fridge… great idea for tonights dinner! Thanks!
Love that you used quinoa! I have to teaches elf to make it!
Quinoa is on my list to try – this looks great!
looks yummy…couscous would probably work instead of quinoa as well…or instead of lettuce wrap it in thin rice paper…
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This looks delicious!!
I have only tried some of the ingredients in this salad and finding out that I have food allergies have been trying really hard to try new foods……I love quinoa had it in another salad last summer and thought it was great……
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I can’t wait to try this recipes it sounds delicious!
I really wanted a mandolin last night when I was slicing potatoes and onions for coddle. This would be awesome!
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this salad looks so good!!! I would love to win these OXO goodies – please enter me in the give-away, thanks!
LOVE THIS RECIPE. I’M GOING TO TRY IT OUT ON THE FAMILY THIS FRIDAY. WOULD LOVE TO WIN THE SPINNER AND SLICER.
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Great recipe! I shall try it tomorrow after getting the ingredients
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I really really want this so bad!!!!
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I <3 quinoa and this recipe looks lovely!
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This looks delish. thanks!
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Wow, this salad looks great! It’ll be perfect for a Lenten Friday meal. I’m a big Oxo fan, too.
The salad looks great, will be trying it. Love OXO, and i need more.
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this sure does not look like rabbit food; i will be trying this recipe. Love OXO products and follow them on facebook. great tips. would love the slicer i aways struggle slicing tomatoes as i make them so uneven.
Found this site at a great time. I am trying to find light low-calorie recipes as my husband needs to lose weight for health reasons. And I always need good vegetable recipes to use when our garden is producing this summer. Glad this website is here and also that I found it! The kitchen tools are great, my weakness!
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It looks yummy
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Oh your salad looks divine! And all things I have on hand in my kitchen (minus the lettuce). Yum!
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I have just developed a new love for salad and I enjoy one every day for lunch. These tools would be great. I also follow you on facebook and follow oxo on facebook too.
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Love all the “goodies” in this quinoa salad!
I’ve wanted to try Quinoa for awhile now and this recipe will get me motivated!
I tweeted for your contest but can I win if I’m a Canuck living in Vancouver BC?
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I’ve been wanting to try quinoa for some time now…I even have it sitting in my pantry! I’m not a shrimp lover but some of the other recipes you shared sound fantastic!
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I think this recipe looks great. I have some health issues and have returned to eating. I think I would eat this……
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This recipe looks fab! I hope I win!!
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I have yet to try quinoa but I keep hearing how wonderful it is. Your recipes have inspired me to give it a try!
This recipe looks great. Can’t wait to try it.
Any idea on calories for this salad?
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I saw OXO’s Green salad spinner on “The Chew” today listed as one of the essential kitchen tools to have! Awesome!
This salad looks divine. Love the combination of quinoa and shrimp. Can’t wait to try it.
Looks good! As do all of your pintrest boards!
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Great recipe! I’m really getting into quinoa…just bought Quinoa 365!
made this for lunch in anticipation of easter brunch — tired of the same old salad. OMG too easy & soooo tasty! this will be a big hit! many thanks!
I’ve been meaning to try quinoa. Now I have a good recipe and an excuse to go get some and try it!
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I need to start eating salad more!
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Looking forward to trying this recipe…
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Wow! What a fantastic recipe!
Great giveaway!!!!! Thanks
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This will be made this week at my house this week. Great idea for Lent.
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I’m always looking for new ways to fix quinoa, and this one sounds like a great one to try!
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I love this recipe. I really could use the Oxo products. I love to cook and love your recipes. thankx…….
YUM!!!
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I have a mandoline, but it’s pretty big, so I don’t use it very often. I bet I’d use this handy little mandoline an awful lot more.
It looks so nice! And that lemon dressing sounds like a very good stuff
Such a simple, delicious recipe! Your comment that if the taste isn’t there, you eat more really hit home for me – if something tastes extraordinary, you don’t feel the need to eat as much. Perhaps because it makes us eat slower, to savour it? In any case, a beautifully simple recipe – thankyou for sharing!
Looks delicious! I’ve been looking for more quinoa recipes to try!
How timely. We had bought quinoa a while ago, but my wife was just telling me that she couldn’t figure out what to do with it. We know it’s healthy, but, contrary to our original impression, is NOT a “rice substitute” in recipes. I’m printing up 3 of the recipes, and we’ll try those. Thanks.
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I love shrimp, the salad looks yummy!
This salad has everything I love in it! Can’t wait to try it
Looking for new quinoa recipes. Thanks!
What a great recipe Dara! I enjoy all of the items in the recipe — going to run out now and get some avocado and shrimp!
And, my salad spinner is my favourite kitchen tool — I could use a new one!
Love your blog, Like you on FB, have tried a number of your recipes and love quinoa and cold rice-type salads so this one looks great AND could REALLY use a salad spinner, would also love the mandolin, but the salad spinner would be used constantly. Thanks for the opportunity.
Great recipe. The only modification I would make is that I usually cook quinoa with chicken broth and garlic. It takes away the grain flavour that I don’t prefer with quinoa.
Would love to win that salad spinner and mandoline! My salad spinner bit the dust last summer and I haven’t replaced it yet. (The plastic bag with paper towels does not work great, I tell you.)
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It’s all about flavour…when it comes to foods that are good for us, if they don’t taste great too, why bother???
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The salad looks delicious and I would love to have a salad spinner!
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I am always looking for new recipes that include seafood, especially during Lent.
Love OXO. Love your blog. Love the quinoa recipe. Thanks for sharing.
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Oh, YUM! I just finished a quinoa salad I made…and now am craving yours! And what a lovely giveaway!
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I have been pining for a mandoline for so long!
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Yummmmm!!!! ‘nough said!!! Oh…would love to win!
I’ve been trying to eat healthier as well. The dressing on this looks delicious.
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I have been saving this recipe since you posted it in my foodbuzz inbox. I finally bought some quinoa and am ready to try it! I’ve never had it before but I am really looking forward to this salad.
I have never tried Quinoa. I love the salad ideas. I’m going to try them.
This looks delicious! I am going to make this for dinner over the weekend!
This looks amazing! I’m going to make it this weekend and feature your recipe on my blog! http://Www.burningbabifat.com
Can’t wait to try this, my mom is coming to visit and this will be perfect. Great website!
Quinoa is one of my faves! I’d love this salad spinner to replace my $2 ikea one!!
This is a perfect spring recipe. I can’t wait to try it!
More avocado love! And the quinoa and the shrimp and that dressing! What isn’t there to love about this dish? Amazing.
I had to laugh at your comment about washing lettuce, it is definitely not one of my favorite past times. Makes me feel validated to know that I am not alone in my dislike of lettuce scrubbing. Thank you for sharing some great tips and such a lovely recipe. Shrimp has become a new food inspiration for me so I’m always on the look out for recipes, and then you add avacado and it just becomes heavenly! Thanks!
Hi there,
I am a full time college student and would love to take this for lunch.
Would you recommend keeping the dressing on the side until I am going to eat or does it last well if I take it pre-added?
I probably won’t eat lunch 5-7 hours after I pack it.
Thanks so much!
Hi Ashley, typically I would recommend dressing salads right before eating. However, quinoa dishes do just fine when dressed ahead of time, even hours ahead. The benefit to doing so in this recipe is that the acid in the dressing (lemon juice) will help to keep the avocado from turning brown. I hope you enjoy it!
I follow oxo on Facebook and cooking Canuck on Facebook and Pinterest. This is an awesome giveaway.
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