Jennifer Aniston Salad
Today we're making this lovely salad that Jennifer Aniston (supposedly) ate on the set of friends. Made with quinoa, chickpeas, red onion, cucumber, pistachios, fresh herbs with a lemon vinaigrette dressing. Simple, yet amazingly good!
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Servings: 14 cups
Calories: 167kcal
Equipment
- 1 medium pot or rice cooker
- 1 large salad bowl
- large spoon or tongues
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa
- 1 cucumber diced
- 1 small red onion diced
- 1 can chickpeas liquid drained
- 1 cup feta crumbled
- 1 cup parsley chopped
- 1 cup mint chopped
- 1 cup pistachios
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 lemons juiced
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Cook quinoa according to package directions. Should yield about 3.5 cups of cooked quinoa. Let cool.
- In a large bowl, add cucumber, chickpeas, red onion, pistachios, parsley, mint, feta cheese.
- To make dressing, add olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper in a mason jar. Shake to combine. Drizzle evenly over ingredients in bowl.
- Using a large spoon or tonges, mix ingredients together.
- Serve in individual bowls.
Notes
For raw onion haters, it helps to soak your onions in hot water for 30 minutes. This takes the edge off the onion.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cup | Calories: 167kcal | Carbohydrates: 17.2g | Protein: 5.9g | Fat: 8.8g | Saturated Fat: 2.2g | Sodium: 300.2mg | Potassium: 192.3mg | Fiber: 3.3g