Healthy & delicious quinoa salad - recipe

Yesterday and the day before that I made this delicious salad I came up with. It's very healthy and nutritious and will fill you up when you're hungry. The salad is made of a layer of quinoa on the bottom, with some fried vegetables on top, salad, avocado, chicken and topped of with roasted almonds and balsamico vinegar. The recipe is also perfect if you want to live a healthier lifestyle, as the new year has begun, or just want some inspiration for healthier food or salads.

Here is what you will need (1 portion):

• 50ml of quinoa
• 1 chickenbreast
• Two vegetables of you choice (I choose bell pepper and zucchini)
• Three handfuls of salad
• 1 avocado
• Almonds
• Seasoning for your chicken

Start of by boiling your quinoa in a pot with one part quinoa to two parts water. Put a pan on your stove and roast your almonds on high heat (you don't have to use oil on the pan). When you almonds are getting burnt marks and looks roasted enough, take them of the pan, and set them aside. Cut the almonds into smaller pieces.

Next take the pan and fry your chicken breast on medium heat about six minutes on each side. Season your chicken before you flip it on the other side. Slice up your vegetables.When you have fried your chicken on one side and flipped it over, move it to the side of your pan, and fry the vegetables on the other side of the pan. Season the vegetables as well.

When your quinoa is done boiling after fifteen to twenty minutes, take it off the stove and pour the water out, so you're left with only your quinoa. 

Wash your salad and set it aside. Take your chicken breast of the pan when it is browned and no longer raw inside (check it, by cutting in the chicken breast), and slice it into bitesize pieces. When the vegetables are browned and done as well, take them of the heat.

Now take your quinoa and put it on your plate in a flat circle. Next take your fried vegetables, and put them on top. Take your salad and chicken and put it on top of your vegetables. Now take an avocado and slice it into small pieces. Put the avocado on top of the salad as well as the roasted almonds. Now drizzle the salad with a little bit of balsamico vinegar, or any other salad dressing you prefer.

Bon appetit!