Easy Crunchy Quinoa Cabbage Salad

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You’ll love how easy this Healthy Quinoa Cabbage Salad is to make! It’s perfect as a side dish but hearty enough to enjoy as lunch too. The salad includes black beans for extra protein and carrots and sunflower seeds for a bit of added crunch.  And the homemade dressing is the best!

I was always skeptical of cabbage salads...until I ate this one. My friend Jess created the recipe and would often bring it to potlucks. After a potluck or two of people raving over it, I finally gave it a try.

And I immediately loved it! So much so, that I asked Jess for the recipe. But she’s a dump-and-pour sort of cook and didn’t really have one. (Bless all those dump-and-pour cooks that get asked for recipes!) Thankfully, she was kind enough to write down the rough ingredient amounts one day when she made it and gave me those.  Then I tweaked it from there.

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Prep Time 15 mins Total Time 15 mins

Ingredients

- 2 ¼ cups cooked quinoa – 2 ½ cups shredded cabbage – ½ cup shredded carrots – 1 can black beans, drained – ⅓ cup roasted sunflower seeds

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Instructions

 Add all of the salad ingredients to a bowl.

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Whisk together dressing ingredients.

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