The recipes are finally here! so, just in case you didn't know I hosted a fundraising dinner with my Dance Marathon partner to raise the money we needed to dance. special thanks to everyone who participated by donating and/or coming to the dinner! yay.
It was a five course dinner and the accompanying recipes will come one at a time. We will begin with the quinoa garbanzo salad!! it was modified from a recipe I found on epicurious from the july 2010 issue of bon appetit.
Garbanzo Bean and Spinach Quinoa Salad
1 1/2 cups of uncooked quinoa, washed then drained
3 cups baby spinach leaves, washed and thoroughly dried
1 LARGE can of garbanzo beans, about 24 ounces, rinsed and drained
2 cucumbers, partially peeled, quartered and diced
2 medium tomatoes, chopped (or 1 pint halved cherry/grape tomatoes if you like these better)
1 cup mint leaves
dressing:
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 teaspoons paprika
pinch salt
pinch black pepper
1/8-1/4 cup olive oil, depending how tart you like your dressing
1. cook the quinoa according to directions on package; usually 1 part quinoa to 2 parts water/liquid, let boil, then simmer for 15 minutes. season the water if not using a fancy liquid like stock. let the quinoa drain well
2. mix all salad ingredients together, add cooled quinoa; DON'T ADD MINT YET
3. make the dressing by combining first 4 ingredients, then slowly drizzle in oil to make cute emulsion. I don't like so much oil in my dressing so I do twice the amount of vinegar to oil.
4. pour dressing over salad mixture and add the mint RIGHT BEFORE SERVING or else it will be black and wilty which is gross.
enjoy and more recipes to come.
<3 HK
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