Meal prep your lunch with this protein and nutrient packed quinoa mixed with mild spring onions, aromatic fresh basil and zesty lemon. Top with herb and spice roasted cauliflower and salty vegan feta cheese for a great make ahead lunch

I know we’re pretty late to the salad jar party but it wasn’t till the last couple of years that Phil would even contemplate eating salad.  If ever it somehow found its way to his plate it would hastily get shoved onto mine with utter disgust.  But now because we eat quite a bit of it, one thing I don’t want it to become is predictable and boring.  Enter Hodmedod’s wonderful Organic Wholegrain Quinoa for these Roasted Cauliflower and Quinoa Salad jars.  How to have salad that’s filling, full of texture and flavour and amenable to adding aallll kinds of yummy things to it!

I’ve used cauliflower here because not only is it super tasty and so easily taken up a notch with some simple (and health benefiting!) spices but it also packs a nutritional punch itself containing such key vitamins and minerals as vitamin B, vitamin C, potassium and folate.

Then you have protein packed quinoa for the base mixed with mild spring onions and aromatic fresh basil, lightened all the more with zesty lemon …

…all of which can then be loaded on top with whatever other flavours you love.  I chose halved cherry tomatoes, diced red pepper, crumbled vegan feta cheese, the roasted cauliflower and some roughly chopped pistachios.  All this gives you a wonderfully light but filling salad with incredible textures and explosions of flavour!

Feel free to make it up as you go along, you know what you like! But the Hodmedod’s Organic Wholegrain Quinoa base is just perfect and as you’ll most likely be making it the day before, it gives all the flavours time to infuse with each other .. it also doesn’t suffer from being more than a day old either so go ahead and make a couple of days worth!

I’d love to hear what your flavour combinations for something like this would be … the weirder and more wonderful the better!  Let’s keep salad interesting!

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