My “spin” on a Greek Salad
Ok so I combined a few of my favorite summertime foods to create an amazing, easy salad or side. I’ve been loving the vegetable spiralizer and creating all kinds of great things. #vegetarian, #GF
Greek Style Cucumber Zoodles w/ Kale infused Quinoa
Recipe Type: Salads, sides
Cuisine: Greek, American
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Serves: 2
Spin on a Greek Salad with a vegetable spiralizer
Ingredients
- 2 large cucumbers-peeled, leave whole
- pint of tomatoes-heirloom, grape or cherry etc
- 4 oz Feta cheese
- Greek Peperocini (3-4)
- Chick peas- 1 can
- Olives-optional
- Chopped Romaine, kale or your favorite lettuce as a “bed”
- Lemon flavored Olive Oil-to taste
- Balsamic Vinegar-to taste
- Oregano
- salt & pepper
- For the quinoa:
- 1 cup of quinoa cooked according to directions
- 2 cups of kale
Instructions
- Cook quinoa according to directions
- At the same time, saute kale in a little olive oil
- once quinoa is done mix in kale, season w salt, pepper set aside
- Salad:
- spiralize cucumbers
- arrange lettuce on plate, top with quinoa/kale mixture
- top with cucumber “noodles”
- add tomatoes, peperocini, olives (if desired)
- Sprinkle on chick peas
- top with Feta
- drizzle olive oil, balsamic, salt, pepper & oregano
- serve
Super easy & fast! Note: This will make more quinoa than you need so it’s great to have around for lunch the next day. I even add it into an omelet for breakfast. It can be eaten cold or at room temp.
Tell me: What do you think of my Spiralized Greek Salad?
That looks so good. I love the refreshment of cucumber, especially during the summer. And the quinoa and kale give it some oompf.
It’s a great easy summer salad!
So awesome! I use a julienne peeler for spiraling vegetables, and I have never seen a spiralizer like that before, and it looks so cool! I want one even more now. What a great collection of ingredients, that is a runner meal for nutrition and general health!
Thanks and it’s super easy too! I got the peeler from William Sonoma but they have it on amazon too.
So creative, Deborah! And so many of my favorite foods all in one dish!!! Thanks for sharing!
Mine too! Glad you like it
Yum! This looks really good, love how pretty the spiralizer makes the cucumbers 🙂
I’m obsessed with the spiralizer!!
Yum! I could easily veganize this and…I need the vegetable spiralizer!!!
Sure of course you could leave the cheese off! That’s why I can’t be a vegan-I love cheese so vegetarian works for me
You know, I’ve only done spaghetti style noodles with my spiralizer, I love the look of this. Need to pull that back out!!
You do I love the variety you can do. It should be on your meal plan too!
Yum! This looks great. I guess the spiralizer is a hot thing right now. I’m trying to resist another gadget!
You might need to get it!!
Looks yummy!
It was and super easy!
Looks delicious! I LOVE my spiralizer!
me too! Can’t get enough of mine!
This sounds delicious! I’m spiralized obsessed 🙂
Me too! It’s so easy and good
Ooooh! The things you can do with a spiralizer! So excited to try this refreshing and mouth-watering recipe. Thanks so much for sharing this.