Quinoa Tabouli
A summer salad for BBQs and vegetarians
Well hello again!
I have another fabulously juicy, cinchy salad for you today.
Here is the queen of quinoa recipes, full of summer freshness and fragrance.
Sometimes summer heat can put me off hot food. Know what I mean? This salad has your back. As does the crazydelicious aubergine cigar recipe from last month’s Substack, and the cooling, crunchy Thai green salad. All are criminally easy to make, but outrageously tasty and satisfying. We have them on repeat in our summer kitchen.
They also prove to be amenable gifts at summer parties and outdoor festivities. Expect the aubergine cigars to be quite the prima donna at your neighbour's barbecue, stealing all the oxygen from the other salads (which is a different type of delicious altogether).
Aubergine Cigars with Walnut Butter
Hello lovely crew! Please join me in my kitchen for a tutorial today while I make one of my absolute favourite vegetarian dishes to bring to BBQs … Aubergine Cigars. They work really well for winter pass-aroundies too, as well as in a summer spread.
4 Ways with Little Gems
Happy May my friends! Often, we are so preoccupied with putting meals on tables and catering for all the different taste preferences that we forget one critical factor. Food turns into us. The stuff we eat, feeds the very cells inside us. We are what we eat.
Unusual for a carb, quinoa contains all the essential amino acids required to make a complete source of protein. That’s a fist bump for vegans and gym bunnies. Just one cup of quinoa will gift you with a thrilling 10g of protein and a honking 16mg of chest-thumping iron. Little wonder the Incan army marched on quinoa (erm, metaphorically not literally).
You can upgrade today’s salad to a simple supper by dropping a poached egg on top and a cloud of garlic yoghurt. Or crumbled feta adds creaminess too. It's also ace with hot chilli sauce and sweet potato wedges. You will feel your limbs reignite. That's because B vitamins help our battery, our body and our brain. (And don’t forget vitamin B is Brilliant for Bad hangovers). Quinoa is pumped with B vitamins.
Stress can rob and pilfer our body’s bank of B vitamins. If we run out of our B supply, our body will struggle to make stress-related hormones, nourish nerves, or watch Stranger Things without our adrenal glands combusting. Stress, then, creates a need for vitamins to be replaced. All too often we reach for priapic excesses of junk food, booze and espressos, when all our body needs is a healthful meal to get us cantering again.
And here it is!
Love, light and all things quinoa,
Susan Jane
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// Quinoa Tabouli//
Serves 6 as a side
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