Quinoa Mango Magic

Give this recipe a go if you like a touch of the sweet in your salad and I promise that you will love it. I adapted a recipe I found and I hope that  you will continue to adapt to suit your own tastes. Quinoa will take on the flavours of ingredients added to it and this salad is delicious with a nice balance of sweet and sour because of that fact.

Quinoa Mango Salad

• Slowly simmer 3/4 cup of washed quinoa in 1 and 1/2 cups of chicken stock until all liquid has been absorbed. The quinoa will be cooked in about 20 minutes.
• Place the warm grain into a bowl and add 1/2 cup sultanas or cranberries and 1/2 teaspoon each of ground fennel powder and salt. Mix through and leave to cool.

• To the cool quinoa add 1 cup of diced mango and 1/2 pomegranate.
• 1/2 cup of finely chopped coriander leaves and stems add a nice crunch or  parsley and the juice of 1/2 a lime squeezed over the top.
• To turn this into a meal stir through some baby spinach or other salad leaves and top with diced avocado if you desire.