Spicy Kale Salad with Quinoa, Black Bean Beans and a Spicy Dressing. Similar to a Chipotle Bowl but without the added nasty oils. This is a crowd-pleaser!

Spicy Kale and Quinoa Black Bean Salad

quinoa, uncooked

kale, de-stemmed

red onion, chopped

black beans,

corn

fresh cilantro, chopped

garlic,

lime juice (about 2 limes)

sauce

water

maple syrup

cumin

sea salt and pepper,

In a medium sized pot, combine 2 cups of water with 1 cup of quinoa and bring to a boil. Lower heat, cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until water is absorbed and quinoa is fluffy.

In a large salad bowl, add the kale and the onion.

Once the quinoa is done cooking, add in the black beans and corn to the pot. Mix it up. You could just add these over the kale but I wanted to warm up the beans and corn. Add the quinoa mixture over the kale and mix.

Prepare the dressing. Pour the dressing over the salad, mix and enjoy!

I made this for dinner tonight and yumm! My husband doesn’t like kale or quinoa *insert eye roll here* so it’s difficult to find healthy recipes he’ll actually eat. He loved it!  So easy to throw together and eat the leftovers for lunch the next day! I’ll be making this again and again. Thanks for sharing.

I give it 2 stars as it’s a good base recipe. But as anyone with a palate knows, fat = flavor, and most people don’t want to eat food with no deliciousness. After adding 2 chopped avocados, it came to life with more texture and satiety. Also drizzled olive oil. This recipe does not taste anything like eating chipotle, there is no complexity to the flavors (which you get from slowly braising meat, letting complex salsas meld together, steeping you’re rice in aromatics like cilantro and lime, etc), it’s more like a riff on cowboy caviar, ala open some cans and dump into bowl. But with some modifications it’s a great way to use up an aggressive patch of kale in the garden and feed a small group some healthy superfoods!

This has been one of our go-to recipes since finding it! I end up making it every few weeks :)

spicy kale and quinoa black bean salad

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total: 30 minutes

Servings: 5

Author : Shannon Leparski

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