Quinoa Salad with Zucchini & Lemon ♥ Recipe

Today's grain salad recipe: Quick-cooking quinoa tossed with sautéed zucchini and brightened with lemon. Low carb. Weight Watchers 0 points. Vegan.

For anyone feeling less than svelte after the holidays, this easy grain salad pairs two of my favorite ingredients, quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wa) and zucchini (pronounced zoo-KEEN-ee). You might say that I'm 'keen' on quinoa and zucchini, yes? (Ha. I hear you groaning now.)

Quinoa is a high-protein grain. It's also lighter tasting and faster cooking. And easier to digest. Zucchini is available year-round, inexpensive and easy to chop.

Toss quinoa and zucchini together into a salad with a little lemon, whaddaya get?
A great refrigerator salad for dieters, high in protein, low in calories, easy to keep around
A lovely grain salad, low in fat and high in protein, easy to carry to a potluck, say

Honestly, this salad may not knock off your socks. It's not even a salad that people will look up and say, "Who made this? I'd like the recipe."

But it deserves its status as a staple in my house with added virtues of simplicity and adaptability. In fall, cubes of roasted cauliflower, sweet potato or butternut squash could be added. In summer, stir in kernels of corn sliced right off the cob, also some halves of grape tomato. Yes, you could say, I'm keen on it.
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