{"id":1313,"date":"2013-06-08T03:14:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/recipes\/quinoasalad.html"},"modified":"2021-08-02T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:54:07","slug":"quinoasalad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Quinoa Salad with Melon and Spinach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1\/2 pound spinach, preferably baby leaves<br \/>\n1 cup watermelon balls or cubes<br \/>\n1 cup honeydew balls or cubes<br \/>\n1 cup cantaloupe balls or cubes<br \/>\n1 cucumber, cut in 1\/2&#8243; pieces<br \/>\n1 small red onion, chopped fine<br \/>\n2 cups <a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/recipes\/recipe40.html\">cooked quinoa<\/a> (see note below)<br \/>\n1\/4 cup honey mustard salad dressing, or the dressing of your choice<\/p>\n<p>Wash and drain the spinach and remove any tough stems. If the leaves are large, take a handful and roll them up, then slice into 1\/4&#8243; &#8211; 1\/2&#8243; strips. Repeat until all of the spinach is cut up. Mix the spinach with the remaining ingredients. Serve at room temperature or chilled.<\/p>\n<p>4-6 servings<\/p>\n<p>Note: Quinoa is a tiny bird-seed-shaped whole grain that <a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/recipes\/recipe40.html\">cooks quickly<\/a> (in about 20 minutes). It makes a good substitute for couscous with any sauce or stew, and is delicious in salads. It&#8217;s available in most supermarkets; look for a small box or plastic bag. If you can&#8217;t find it, use cooked barley or any other cooked whole grain instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/2 pound spinach, preferably baby leaves 1 cup watermelon balls or cubes 1 cup honeydew balls or cubes 1 cup cantaloupe balls or cubes 1 cucumber, cut in 1\/2&#8243; pieces 1 small red onion, chopped fine 2 cups cooked quinoa (see note below) 1\/4 cup honey mustard salad dressing, or the dressing of your choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}