Red Quinoa Salad

Quinoa's protein is of an unusually high quality. It is a complete protein, with an essential amino acid balance close to the ideal ... similar to milk!
This is the perfect all year round salad, nutty, juicy sweet, bitter, and that dreaded word 'healthy'.

250g Red quinoa

3 oranges

200g black olives
200g cashew nuts
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
8 large basil leaves
100g rocket
3 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt
Cracked Pepper

Method:

First cook the Quinoa as instructed on the packet once cooked run the quinoa under clod water to cool down.
On grilling tray evenly spread out the olives and drizzles with just enough olive oil to coat the olives then crack in pepper and place under grill on high heat to roast, when the olives start to sizzle move the olives round the tray so that all sides of olives are evenly roasted, this will take around 15 minutes.
Once olives are roasted spoon out of tray leaving the olive juice in the tray, add the cashew nuts to the tray and sprinkle with turmeric drizzle over the honey and liberally sprinkle with salt and pepper and mix together with your hands. Roast the cashew nuts under a hot grill turning every 2 minutes so all sides are evenly roasted, this should take 6 minutes.
Place the cooked quinoa, olives and cashew nuts in a large mixing bowl. Peel the oranges and cut in half and then cut in half again and slice the oranges in to small chunks and add to the salad, roughly tear basil into salad, add the balsamic and mix together. Taste salad and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper and serve.