Basic quinoa salad with spinach

An easy quinoa salad is great as a basic salad, where you can add all sorts of extras you like. For example, try baked vegetables, sun-dried tomatoes, chickpeas or cheese. It's mostly about what you like, feel like and of course have in your kitchen cupboards!

The basic recipe for an easy quinoa salad mixes quinoa with spinach, lots of fresh herbs, olive oil and citrus. It's a great combination that goes with just about anything without the salad taking up too much attention. It's a salad you can make when you can't quite figure out what to make for dinner at home.

Try serving the salad as a side dish to a curry, where it is fresher, greener and more exciting than if you just eat quinoa as a side dish. And if you have leftovers the next day, it can easily be transformed into a delicious lunch salad with some extra greens, crunchy nuts, avocado and perhaps eggs, smoked salmon or chickpeas. For example, it can be quickly transformed into this lunch salad with avocado and eggs. With a little more help, you can also transform it into a Greek quinoa salad, a quinoa salad with fresh figs or maybe this salad with strawberries and mozzarella? The possibilities are many!