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Prep Time
05 Minutes
Cooking Time
15 Minutes
Serves
2-4 People
Ingredients
A fresh-tasting lunchtime or light evening meal with the added benefit of being really quite good for you. It is quick to put together but the flavours pack a punch and leave you feeling nicely satisfied. The avocado, parsley, alfalfa sprouts, peas, green beans & seeds provide plenty of vitamins, minerals, good fats (avocado) and plant nutrients while Quinoa has a very high protein & fibre content but the bulghur provides your carbs-a meal in one bowl!
- 1/2 a Smoked Irish Chicken, sliced
- A large handful of green beans, blanched & cooled quickly to retain their green colour & nutrients
- 50g peas, fresh or frozen, blanched & cooled quickly to retain their green colour & nutrients
- ½ a  cucumber, diced
- A handful of alfalfa sprouts
- 3 tbsp toasted pumpkin & sunflower seeds
- 1 avocado, chopped
- 50g red quinoa
- 50g cooked bulghur wheat, room temperature
- Small handful flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
- Small handful mint, roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
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