Yen Can Cook: Quinoa Avocado Salad with Grilled Prawns
December is always a busy month as Christmas approaches and we look forward to a new calendar year. I believe your social calendars are filling up with plans to visit family, friends and neighbours over the Christmas season. It’s also a season of indulgence which brings a seemingly endless barrage of parties, gatherings, and get-togethers. Personally, I love it! (who doesn’t?) But all those alcohols, mince pies, cakes, chocolates, savoury snacks; they can get a bit much for your poor body. So take one or two days of rest for your tummy, have some light and easy to digest food such as salad, whole grains or lean protein. Today’s salad recipe calls for a more oriental style dressing which combines soy sauce, lemon juice and mirin, quite savory and easy to palate I would say. 🙂
Ingredients (Serve: 1 – 2)
100g quinoa
7-8 prawns, shell and devein
1 avocado, diced
6 cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered
Baby spinach or other mesclun salad leaves
Cooking oil
Salt and black pepper
Dressing
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon Mirin
Salt and black pepper, to taste
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Step 1: Combine all the ingredients of the dressing in a bowl, mix well and set aside.
Step 2: Marinate the prawns with salt and black pepper.
Step 3: Cook the quinoa, refer HERE for how to cook fluffy quinoa.
Step 4: Heat up some oil in a pan then pan fried the prawns until fully cooked. Dish up and set aside.
Note: Other proteins such as salmon, chicken fillet or smoked duck can be used to substitute the prawns.
Step 5: For the salad, mix the quinoa, diced avocado, cherry tomatoes and baby spinach in a salad bowl.
Step 6: Add in the dressing (Step 1) toss well and topped with the grilled prawns.
Step 7: Serve.
HAPPY COOKING!
I love the month of December too. It is like saying farewell to a tough year and plan a New Year’s resolution.
Your healthy Quinoa Avocado Salad dish is so yummy especially your photography skills made the food appear like a page from the glossy recipe books!
TM, so sweet of you, love ya 🙂
2018 definitely a challenging year for Malaysia, let’s hope we have a better 2019! Wish you and your family Merry Christmas and happy 2019!
ahh please send this to me during workweek lunch time.
KY, ask Grab Car to collect, I can prepare for you, haha!
seeing how much i adore avocado, this is the recipe for me … tambah avocado, pls 🙂
Sean, avocado is expensive, and I’m not always so lucky to get a nicely ripen avocado like this 🙁
Ooo….I love this salad for those large, juicy, well seared prawns (minus the quinoa)! 😉
Kris, oh well, you can omit anything that you don’t like in the salad then add more the ingredients you like, hehe 😛
Looks so yummy! And healthy too
Mel, thanks and you can try it out as the recipe is pretty simple~