Quinoa Salad with Mango, Cashews, and Mint

Celebrate summer and mango season with this flavorful Quinoa Salad with Mangoes, Cashews, and Mint.

It is suddenly, emphatically, mango season in Miami. The trees are full of heavy, ripe, orange fruit hanging from long stems, like possums swinging by their tails (another delightful South Florida phenomenon).

In mango season, it’s almost as though you can stand underneath a mango tree with your mouth open and have sweetness fall right into your mouth.

Or you can enjoy this summer salad with quinoa as a base, providing fiber and oomph, cooling mint, and cashews for crunch. Cashews and mangoes are related, botanically speaking, so it’s like the best kind of family reunion.

This is black quinoa from Rancho Gordo celebrating 20 wonderful years of heirloom beans and other good things.

Happy anniversary to you and happy mango season to all.

Quinoa Salad With Mangoes, Cashews and Mint

Quinoa, a whole grain, has a natural protective coating called saponin. Rinse quinoa before cooking and you’re good to go with this easy summer salad. It looks like a bowl of jewels, tastes like a mouth of wonderful. It’s high in protein and low in calories and fat, too. Serve room temperature or slightly chilled. Good on its own or mounded on a bed of fresh spinach, arugula or other salad greens.

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Course: Salad

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup quinoa rinsed
• 2 cups water or vegetable broth
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1 tablespoon canola grapeseed or other neutral oil
• 2 stalks celery diced
• 1/2 jalapeno minced (about 2 teaspoons)
• 1 handful of mint leaves coarsely chopped
• 1 bunch cilantro leaves coarsely chopped
• 1 mango peeled and diced (about 1 cup)
• 1/2 cup roasted unsalted cashews, coarsely chopped
• sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste

Method

 

1. Bring water or vegetable broth to boil over high heat. Pour in quinoa. Cover and reduce heat to low. Cook quinoa for about 25 minutes, or until all all the liquid is absorbed and quinoa’s little endosperm tails appear.
2. Spoon quinoa into a large bowl. Add lime juice and oil and toss to combine. Add celery, jalapeno, mint and cilantro. Mix again.
3. Gently mix in mango. Season with sea salt and pepper.
4. Mix in roasted cashews just before serving.
5. Keeps covered and refrigerated for 3 days, although nuts may lose some of their crunch.

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