After making the strawberry BBQ chicken club sandwiches with bacon, avocado and goat cheese I still had plenty of the roasted strawberry BBQ sauce leftover and I knew just what I wanted to make with it, a strawberry BBQ quinoa salad. I have been wanting to try making a BBQ chicken quinoa salad with black beans and corn for a while now but a strawberry BBQ quinoa salad suddenly sounded like a much better idea! I used a lot of the same flavours as in the strawberry BBQ chicken sandwich in this quinoa salad including the avocado, bacon and goat cheese since they worked so amazingly well together. I filled the quinoa salad out with baby spinach along with some green onions and cilantro. If you have the cooked chicken on hand, this salad is as easy to make as cooking the quinoa and throwing everything together and despite that it is so fantastically good!
What a perfect spring salad!
Use grilled strawberry BBQ chicken for the chicken for even more flavour.
All mixed up and ready to eat.
Strawberry BBQ Chicken Spinach and Quinoa Salad with Bacon, Avocado and Goat Cheese
A spinach and quinoa salad with sweet, spicy and smoky roasted strawberry BBQ chicken, fresh strawberries, cool and creamy avocado, tangy goat cheese and bacon.
ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa, well rinsed
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 cups baby spinach
- 1 cup cooked chicken, shredded or diced
- 1 cup strawberries
- 1 cup avocado
- 1/4 cup goat cheese, crumbled
- 4 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1/4 cup roasted strawberry BBQ sauce
- 2 green onions
- cilantro to taste
directions
- Bring the water and quinoa to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer, covered, until the quinoa is tender and has absorbed the water, about 15 minutes, remove from heat and let sit for 5 minutes, covered.
- Meanwhile, slice the strawberries, dice the avocado and slice the green onions.
- Mix everything and enjoy.
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Kevin this is beautiful! Wow! I love everything and I mean everything in this salad! I am making this for sure. I have all the ingredients anyway!
Great-looking salad, Kevin!
This combines so many of my favorite flavors into a single dish! Love it, Kevin!
wow, this looks wonderful! so many things that I love on one plate 🙂 will have to try!
Kevin, this is a gorgeous ~ colorful + tempting salad!
Love the way you used the ingredients spinach + quinoa + strawberries? Yes please!
gah!!! Kevin, this looks so beautiful!!!
Thanks Kevin for sending me to your site from google+. Looking forward to trying the salad soon.
Made this tonight and it was wonderful! I added sliced almonds and cooked my quinoa in chicken broth for another layer of flavor. Spectacular recipe!
This looks really good. So fresh and summery.
I love chicken and I love spinach – looks like a win win to me! Thanks for the great idea!