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This easy quinoa & butternut squash salad is a beautiful and delicious recipe that's packed with nutrition. Eat for lunch or as a side dish or take along to your next party!

Easy Quinoa & Butternut Salad #GetWellMichele

This easy quinoa & butternut squash salad is a beautiful and delicious recipe that's packed with nutrition. Original recipe is from A Dish of Daily Life and can be found here.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 4 -6
Author Denise Wright (MyLifeCookbook.com)

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Village Harvest Red Quinoa prepared according to package directions
  • 1 heaping cup spinach cut into ribbons
  • 1 heaping cup roasted butternut squash
  • 1 cup feta cheese crumbled
  • ½ cup pine nuts toasted

Instructions

  1. Salad
  2. Prepare red quinoa according to package directions.
  3. Peel and cube a small butternut squash, toss with a couple tablespoons of olive oil, and roast for about a half hour until fork tender, at 450 degrees. (I did have extra butternut squash cubes, which I saved to use in another dish)
  4. Cut spinach into ribbons.
  5. Toast pine nuts.
  6. Wait for quinoa and butternut squash to cool before assembling the salad.
  7. Mix together quinoa, butternut squash, spinach, feta and pine nuts.
  8. Toss with orange vinaigrette. Add slowly...you may have extra depending on how light or heavy you like your salad dressed.
  9. Orange Vinaigrette
  10. Whisk together the orange zest, honey, dijon mustard, salt.
  11. Add the orange juice and whisk together again.
  12. Continue to whisk, and add the olive oil slowly.