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Category:     Salad

Description:
This is the prettiest side salad one could have on their plate. Enjoy! Can be chilled and served as a side salad or warmed and served as a side dish.


General applicability:

Quinoa Confetti
Green: recipe contains only neutral or a beneficials ingredients for that type.
Yellow: recipe contains an secondary avoid ingredient that may be substituted by a more permissable one.
Orange: contains an avoid in a primary ingredient.



Ingredient list:
  • 1 cup red quinoa
  • 1/2 cup purple onion (chopped)
  • 1 cup beets (chopped)
  • 1 cup carrots (chopped)
  • 1 cup broccoli (small florettes)
  • 1/2 cup golden raisins (Unsulfured), dried cranberries or currants may be substituted.
  • 1 cup fresh spinach (chopped)
  • 1 cup fresh arugula (chopped)
  • 1-1/2 teaspoon apricot preserves (made only from fruit juice)or preserves for your blood type.


How to make it:
  • Wash arugula and spinach and set aside to dry
  • slightly steam vegetables (set aside)
  • cook quinoa
  • In a large mixing bowl add these ingredients:
  • onion
  • beets
  • carrots
  • raisins
  • broccoli
  • quinoa (cooked)
  • apricot preserves (melted)
  • Stir all ingredients together
  • Cut spinach and arugula in 1/2'' to 1'' pieces and put on a dinner plate.
  • Scoop with an ice cream scoop and place two scoops of quinoa salad on top of greens, serve and enjoy. :)
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Blood Type Diet Analysis:

Core Ingredients Analysis:
The ingredients in this category are either BTD compliant for all types or the recipe author and/or editor did not suggest a possible substitution. If this category contains avoids for your blood type this recipe may not work for you, unless you feel like you can omit the item or make an appropriate substitution.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Arugula
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Raisins
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Quinoa
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Beets
N
B
N
B
N
B
N
N
Spinach
B
N
B
N
B
N
B
N
Broccoli
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
Carrots
B
B
N
N
N
B
B
N
Onion, all types
B
N
B
N
B
B
B
N
Apricots
B
N
N
N
B
N
A
N


Variations and Substitutions Analysis:
This category of ingredients contains possible substitutions that may allow different blood types to use the recipe or ingredients that can be left out of the recipe altogether.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Cranberries
B
B
N
B
B
B
N
B
Currants
N
N
N
N
N
B
N
N


Macronutrient Analysis:

This recipe may contain macronutrients with important effects on health

  • The recipe may contain ingredients high in lignans
  • The recipe may contain ingredients with healthy glucosinolates
  • The recipe may contain ingredients high in phytoestrogens
  • The recipe may contain ingredients encourage health microbiome balance