This grilled zucchini, corn, and beet quinoa salad is colorful, nutritious, and the perfect side dish for summer barbecues and picnics
Zucchini and corn season has returned! What ever are we to do?
Lettuce grill them! <- Get it? I’m a riot on Mondays.
…and while we’re at it, lettuce grill up some beets and cook up some quinoa and make a whole thing of it!
I know what you’re thinking: grilled beets? What a mind blow. Lemme ‘splain:
Recently, Love Beets and I put our heads together to bring you six beet-infused recipes for grilling season. In case you’re unfamiliar with Love Beets, they sell packaged organic cooked beets, which are available in the produce section of your grocery store. Boom! Beets year-round! Since the beets are already cooked, they only take a split second on the grill to get nice and charred with flavor.
I used my steezy grill to whip out this super fresh grilled vegetable quinoa salad. I tossed it all together in a zesty lime dressing and served it up with cotija cheese.
Feta or goat cheese would be amazing on this dang thing, too! It’s a healthful and shareable salad, perfect for your summer gatherings and suuuuper quick and easy to make.
Head over to Love Beets to get the recipe for my Grilled Vegetable Quinoa Salad.
This is easily one of the best sides I have ever made/eaten! The flavor combo is phenomenal! This will become a summer time favorite
grilled zucchini is my favorite food. grilled beets? ah youre after my heart. love summer~
NO need to ‘splain the beauty of grilling beets. This salad is everything I ever needed in life!! So thrilled you got to enjoy some much needed time in the sun, my love!
Love quinoa, thanks so much for using it in this recipe!
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Giiiiiiirrrlll you make beets look GOOD. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them paired with corn and zucchini before, but I love that they’re joining in the summer produce celebration!
Hooray for summer produce and for beets too!! This recipe sounds amazing and I am totally looking forward to trying all of the Love Beets recipes, especially the salmon!
I equally think this is amazing and delicious.
I swear, if anyone knows how to make beets look sexy, it’s you! I love this combo and I may have seen it before and got ridiculously excited. 😉
And I’m so jealous of your lake time. Gah, I want that so bad right now! I’m coming to visit you soon, mark my words. I need to see that video too. That ant sounds like an awesome little dude! Whenever I feel overwhelmed I always remind myself to work like an ant. It’s amazing how much you can accomplish by taking little steps each day. 🙂
Come on over, sister! You could even bring your laptop and we could do a work-play-in-Tahoe situation! It would just make my heart swell!!
Yummy! thanks a lot. Just be careful with the carbs!
Me want grill! I stopped over, I voted for this gorg salad…fingers crossed!
And oh my gosh, the ant puts me to shame too! If I saw something that was a few times bigger than me, I would just walk away!