This dish combines quinoa and chickpeas, foods rich in fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of quinoa (200 g)
• 2 glasses of water (500 ml)
• 1 ½ cups of boiled chickpeas (300 g)
• chopped fresh parsley (50 g)
• 1 ½ cups of chopped spinach (300 g)
• chopped fresh cilantro (50 g)
• chopped green onion (65 g)
• feta cheese (65 g)
• pumpkin seeds (to taste)

Ingredients for dressing:

• ¼ cup olive oil (40 ml)
• 4 tablespoons of lemon juice (40 ml)
• 2 tablespoons of tahini (30 g)
• 1 large chopped clove of garlic
• ½ teaspoon of fine sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper (to taste)

Instruction:

1. First, rinse the quinoa in a sieve.
2. Then pour it into a pot of water.
3. Cook on medium heat and then reduce the heat.
4. Cook for 15 minutes.
5. After that, remove from heat, cover, and let stand for 5 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, toast the pumpkin seeds for 3-5 minutes until golden brown.
7. Put them in a salad bowl and let them cool for a few minutes.

For the salad dressing:

1. Place all dressing ingredients in a small bowl.
2. Taste and add more salt or lemon if needed.
3. When the quinoa is ready, pour it into a large bowl and add the chickpeas, spinach, parsley, cilantro, green onions, feta cheese, and toasted seeds.
4. Pour the dressing over the salad and mix well.

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INGREDIENTS

• 150 g celery root
• 150 g carrots
• 1 apple
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• salt and pepper to taste
• olive oil
• yogurt to taste

For filling this simple and tasty salad we used thick homemade yogurt, sour cream is also suitable. Instead of dill, you can add other herbs, and olive oil can be replaced with fragrant vegetable.

How to cook celery salad with carrots and apples

Spoon an apple on a special grater for Korean carrots in a suitable bowl, add lemon juice. Also rub the remaining ingredients and add to the apple. Finely chop the dill and lay out the rest of the ingredients. Salt and pepper, season with olive oil and mix. Spread the salad in portions and add yoghurt.

Benefits: the healing properties of celery

Celery has a huge amount of fiber. There are many of them in the petioles and in the tubers, and in the petioles it is even more. Fiber is needed by the body for good intestinal function, it heals and prevents constipation.

Many vitamins:

• vitamin A, which is responsible for skin elasticity,
• vitamins C is important for the immune and nervous systems
• vitamin K – helps strengthen bones, prevents osteoporosis;
• vitamins of group B – well affects the nervous system, celery is recommended to eat when you need to calm down (instead of sedatives).

Celery improves performance, helps with stress, calms the nerves, normalizes sleep.
Nutritionists attribute this vegetable to obesity and overweight.

In addition, thanks to a variety of important elements, celery slows the aging of the body, cleans it of toxins.

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