Balsamic Roasted Blueberry Arugula Salad

Adding fruit to salad is a MUST inwards the summer. I’thousand e'er trying to cram as many summertime ingredients as I tin can into my meals latterly, peculiarly as the stop of summer gets closer. My fridge is packed amongst all the berries, greens, melon, heirloom tomatoes, peaches, in addition to avocados of class.

Eating seasonally is so much fun as well as this salad is a perfect case of that. Instead of merely tossing fresh blueberries inwards the salad, I roasted them inward the oven amongst a footling balsamic and dear. They flare-up and go super sweet, too every bit develop this richness that is to go for. No deadening salads about hither!


See! They unloose their juices together with it well-nigh acts every bit a dressing to the salad. I also added a elementary lemon shallot vinaigrette to this for brightness. So fresh.

The quinoa adds a little staying ability, merely y'all could add grilled chicken or fish to arrive more than of a meal. The toasted almonds add compaction (e'er a necessity inward my life), in addition to the parm adds, good, cheesiness. Because that’sec always a must also.

Also, basil! I ever have it on hand in the summer peculiarly. It pairs beautifully amongst the blueberries in addition to peppery arugula.


During my large grocery shop for the week (it ever ends upward being more..), if I merely purchase greens, a pair toppings similar peppers and cucumbers, and more or less type of poly peptide, without a existent plan, I get SO bored. I’ve made this fault many a time in an endeavour to salve coin as well as refrain from buying tooooo much produce to the betoken where it’s difficult to swallow earlier it goes bad.

This salad completely fixes that dilemma. I’d recommend e'er having a design for a fun salad or 2 for the calendar week, together with you lot tin keep all the ingredients sort so yous tin can get together too toss when y'all’re ready for it. It helps soooo much. I hope yous’ll dearest this!

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Balsamic Roasted Blueberry Arugula Salad

Cuisine

Main, Salad, Side

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 2 -iv

Author Molly (Spices inwards My deoxyribonucleic acid)

Ingredients

• 
  one
  c.
  water
  


• 
  1/two
  c.
  quinoa
  


• 
  one
  c.
  blueberries
  


• 
  2
  tsp.
  balsamic vinegar
  


• 
  i
  tsp.
  honey
  


• 
  pinch
  of common salt
  


• 
  half-dozen
  c.
  arugula
  


• 
  i/4
  c.
  toasted almonds
  


• 
  ane
  c.
  sliced cucumber
  


• 
  1/four
  c.
  grated parmesan cheese
  


• 
  1/iv
  c.
  chopped fresh basil
  


• 
  For the DRESSING:
  


• 
  juice of 1 lemon
  


• 
  two
  T.
  olive crude oil
  


• 
  ane
  T.
  finely chopped shallot
  


• 
  i/four
  tsp.
  salt
  


• 
  ane/4
  tsp.
  pepper
  

Instructions

1. 
   

   Preheat oven to 400℉. Add H2O to a saucepan or pocket-sized pot in addition to convey to a boil. Add quinoa, stir, encompass, in addition to cut back to low oestrus. Cook for fifteen-twenty minutes until quinoa is tender together with all liquid is absorbed. Let cool.

   
   


2. 
   

   Line a baking canvas with parchment. Add blueberries to baking sail and drizzle amongst balsamic and honey. Add a pinch of common salt and toss to coat. Roast for 7-eight minutes until they loose their juices in addition to beginning to burst a fiddling. Let cool slightly.

   
   


3. 
   
   To make the dressing, whisk together the lemon, olive crude, shallot, common salt, and pepper until combined.
   
   


4. 
   
   To get together the salad, add together the blueberries to the arugula, and so the quinoa, cucumbers, too almonds as well as toss. Add dressing, toss once again, as well as complete alongside the grated parm together with chopped basil. Toss over again too serve!