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Quinoa Salad Recipe – A green salad filled with apples, dried apricots, pistachios, quinoa, and goat cheese dressed in a honey mustard vinaigrette.

A bowl of salad with apples and dried fruit.I’m slowly making my way out of a sugar coma. Between my mom’s birthday cake (happy belated b-day, mama!), Easter candy (I’m looking at you Reese’s eggs), and a few too many glasses of strawberry sangria (recipe coming soon!), I’m recovering from a deliciously sweet weekend. I’m hitting the reset button with this light and flavorful Apple, Apricot and Quinoa Salad.

Bowls of lettuce, apples, apricots, and nuts.

I had a salad similar to this at a local wine bar, and I’ve been recreating it at home ever since.

Quinoa Salad Recipe

  • Apples
  • Dried apricots
  • Quinoa
  • Pistachios
  • Goat cheese.

I LOVE the combination of flavors and textures going on here – creamy goat cheese, chewy dried apricots, crunchy pistachios, fluffy quinoa, and crisp apple. I dress the salad with a sweet and tangy honey mustard vinaigrette. The vinaigrette is made from a handful of ingredients that you probably have sitting in your kitchen right now.

Salad with sliced apple, quinoa, nuts, and cheese.

Let’s put down the Cadbury eggs and make ourselves something with nutritional value. Grab a fork, friends. This salad is calling your name.

Yellow salad dressing being poured on a bowl of greens.

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Recipe

A bowl of salad with apples and dried fruit.

Apple, Apricot and Quinoa Salad

A green salad filled with apples, dried apricots, pistachios, quinoa, and goat cheese dressed in a honey mustard vinaigrette.

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Course: main, Main dish, side

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Servings: 2 - 4

Calories: 406kcal

Author: Allison - Celebrating Sweets

Ingredients

Honey mustard vinaigrette:

Instructions

  • Place all the ingredients for the vinaigrette in a small jar. Tightly seal and shake until combined.

  • Place the greens in a serving bowl. Toss the greens with your desired amount of dressing (you will not use all the dressing). Leftover dressing will keep in the fridge for a few days. Add the apple, dried apricots, pistachios, quinoa, and goat cheese. Toss if desired. Serve immediately.

Nutrition

Calories: 406kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 32g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 56mg | Potassium: 318mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 770IU | Vitamin C: 2.4mg | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 1.4mg

Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.

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