quinoa tabouli

Photograph by Leslie Perez. All rights reserved.

The following recipe comes from Gigi Cohen's and Karen Dubrofsky's Nourishing Friends Cookbook.

INGREDIENTS

- 2 cups of quinoa, rinsed
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 English cucumber
- 1 red pepper
- 1 parsley
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 15 black olives
- 1/2 cup of lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- Olive oil
- 1 tsp sumac ( Lebanese spice)
 - Sea salt to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

Rinse your quinoa and boil it in a pot of water. Dice your vegetables, chop your parsley and blend with lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, sumac and sea salt.Once your quinoa has cooled, blend the vegetable mixture with the quinoa.