Warm Sweet Potato & Quinoa Salad with Spicy Peanut Sauce

• Meat

  • 1 handful Romaine hearts

• Produce

  • 1/4 Avocado
  • 1 handful Baby spinach

• Condiments

  • 1 tbsp Chili garlic sauce
  • 3 tbsp Peanut butter
  • 2 tbsp Soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp Sriracha

• Pasta & Grains

  • 1/2 cup Quinoa, cooked

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 tbsp Brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp Sesame seeds

• Oils & Vinegars

  • 1 tbsp Sesame oil

• Nuts & Seeds

  • 1/2 tbsp Hemp seeds
  • 1 tbsp Pumpkin seeds

• Liquids

  • 2 tbsp Water to, thin

• Other

  • 1 2 mini sweet potatoes (baked or microwaved

Found on ilovevegan.com

Description

Ingredients

• 1 handful baby spinach
• 1 handful chopped romaine hearts
• 1-2 mini sweet potatoes (baked or microwaved)
• ½ cup cooked quinoa (cook in vegetable broth for extra flavour)
• 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
• ½ tbsp hemp seeds
• ¼-1/2 avocado, chopped
• dressing: spicy-sweet peanut dressing or roasted garlic hummus
• 2 tbsp soy sauce (or Braggs Liquid Aminos - GF)
• 3 tbsp peanut butter
• 1 tbsp sriracha
• 1 tbsp chili garlic sauce (can substitute with 1 more tbsp sriracha)
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1 tbsp brown sugar (or maple syrup)
• 1 tbsp sesame seeds
• 2-3 tbsp water to thin

Directions

• Scrub, prick, and cook 1-2 mini sweet potatoes until tender. I used my microwave for efficiency and they were ready in about 3 minutes.
• Rinse and drain quinoa. Bring ½ cup quinoa + 1 cup vegetable broth to a boil. Turn down to a low simmer and cover. Cook for 15 minutes.
• While the quinoa is cooking, wash and chop the romaine, chop up the avocado, and prepare the peanut sauce.
• Combine all ingredients in a bowl and whisk vigorously OR combine all ingredients in food processor and pulse.
• Store extra sauce in the fridge. I like to keep mine in a glass salad dressing bottle. It may thicken up when refrigerated, I just run my bottle under hot running tap water until it softens back to a liquid.
• Makes approx. ½ cup of sauce.
• Mix the spinach and romaine together.
• Top with ½ cup warm quinoa, 1-2 chopped sweet potatoes, chopped avocado, pumpkin seeds, hemp hearts, and a drizzle (or more) of the peanut dressing.