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Breakfast Salad

September 28, 2015 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 4 Comments

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Breakfast Salad with quinoa, almonds, pears, and coconut in a cinnamon-cider dressing | www.theeverykitchen.com
Back to the food!

Well, almost… I just want to say how much I love you guys. I’d like to write an entire warm-fuzzy post about all you blog friends, but I’ll keep it short and sweet and just say that I have the best Internet friends and the best in-person friends a girl could ask for and since I’m fat and happy on all the love in my life this past weekend, let’s lean out a little with something green.


Or purple. You can totally make it green if you want. My spinach just happens to be prettier than yours. Sorry I’m not sorry about that.

RED SPINACH in my breakfast Salad with quinoa, almonds, pears, and coconut in a cinnamon-cider dressing | www.theeverykitchen.com
I also paid two bucks extra for the Red Heirloom Spinach at Trader Joe’s. Was it worth it? Yes because it’s beautiful and the beautiful things in life are sometimes worth a bit extra. Food included.

I call this Breakfast Salad because Red Heirloom Spinach Salad with Quinoa, Coconut, Almonds, & Pears in a Cinnamon Cider Dressing is just a mouthful. And yes, that was meant to be a pun. Mouthful… because you will want to take several mouthfuls… but also because it’s difficult to fit all of that in one title. Get it?

Breakfast Salad with quinoa, almonds, pears, and coconut in a cinnamon-cider dressing | www.theeverykitchen.com
Anyway – that’s what’s going on in this bowl, all those ingredients, which each on their own is pretty simple and fine, but together the goodness just multiplies.

I also named it Breakfast Salad because, without the spinach, this would be a delicious breakfast and if I had been a bit smarter and a much better planner, I would have prefaced this salad recipe with a quinoa breakfast bowl.

Breakfast Salad with quinoa, almonds, pears, and coconut in a cinnamon-cider dressing | www.theeverykitchen.com
Breakfast Salad with quinoa, almonds, pears, and coconut in a cinnamon-cider dressing | www.theeverykitchen.com
Don’t worry, the quinoa breakfast bowl will still happen because how good does that sound? I can’t sit here and think about it and then not make it immediately. Like, I might do a test run for breakfast in the morning. And by “in the morning,” I mean this morning I ate it for breakfast because I’m writing this post ahead of time, so go ahead and feel free to ask how good it was. (Answer: Da Bomb.) Milky quinoa porridge with coconut, almonds, pears, and cinnamon. Imma eat that again.

Breakfast Salad with quinoa, almonds, pears, and coconut in a cinnamon-cider dressing | www.theeverykitchen.com
The whole point is that, as of the time I wrote this, I had named the salad after a breakfast that I had yet to make and had only envisioned and imagined eating and drooling over. And now I have done those things and I’m here to tell you – this salad lives up to its namesake. Imma eat this again too.

Breakfast Salad with quinoa, almonds, pears, and coconut in a cinnamon-cider dressing | www.theeverykitchen.com
5 from 1 vote
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Breakfast Salad

Course Main
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 2
Author my Bottomless Boyfriend

Ingredients

For the salad:

  • 4 cups red or green spinach
  • 1 cup cooked quinoa
  • 1 pear cored and thinly sliced
  • 1/4 cup sliced or chopped almonds
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes

For the dressing:

  • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons honey

Instructions

  1. Combine all salad ingredients in a large bowl.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together all the dressing ingredients. Drizzle dressing over the salad and toss to coat.

Below is the coconut I used and I’m obsessed. It’s dehydrated coconut, so they are like tiny, thin, crisps.

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Filed Under: bread and breakfast, brunch, favorites, gluten free, healthy, lunch, quick and easy, salads, savory breakfast, vegan, vegetarian Tagged With: almonds, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, coconut, dressing, pear, quinoa, red spinach, spinach

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Comments

  1. Cheryl

    September 28, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    Love the idea. I think you thought of everything. I’m eating breakfast chili for breakfast now. Trying to shake up my metabolism! Can’t wait to try this.

    Reply
    • Danielle

      September 29, 2015 at 10:01 am

      Hmmm… Breakfast chili? Sounds interesting 🙂 Sometimes good to shake things up a bit! Hope all is well!

      Reply
  2. Sarah | Well and Full

    October 12, 2015 at 9:52 pm

    Oooh a breakfast salad!! I like it!! 😀

    Reply
    • Danielle

      October 13, 2015 at 9:29 am

      5 stars
      Yep! Who says you can’t have salad for breakfast?!

      Reply

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