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Zucchini mint quinoa salad

Quinoa salad with sautéed zucchini, peas, mint and feta.

Green quinoa salad with zucchini ribbons, peas and mint.
464 kcal per servingPrep time: 17 minServings: 1LunchQuinoa saladZucchini and mint

Ingredients

  • 60 g quinoa
  • 1 small zucchini, ribboned
  • 80 g frozen peas
  • 30 g feta
  • 1 tbsp mint and ½ lemon

Method

  1. Simmer the quinoa for 15 minutes, drain and cool.
  2. Sauté the zucchini for 4 minutes and boil the peas for 3 minutes.
  3. Toss everything with lemon and mint and crumble over the feta.

Calories in context

At 464 kcal per serving, this dish is about 23% of a 2000 kcal daily reference intake — the standard reference amount used on nutrition labels, not a personal target.

Eaten as the midday meal in a three-meal day, it is one part of a day whose real total depends on your own body, activity level and goals, not on any single recipe. For a calorie range that reflects those, rather than a generic reference figure, the tools below can help.

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