Sold On Salad

Remember when I made those quinoa-stuffed peppers a while ago?  Well, I still had some uncooked quinoa sitting around in the cupboard and I finally used it up tonight.  Apparently, it's popular to enjoy quinoa in "salad" form, so  I made quinoa and apple salad from marthastewart.com (it was much less labor-intensive than the stuffed peppers). 

1/4 cup almonds
1 cup quinoa
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp honey
1 tbsp shallot, chopped
1 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp salt
Pepper
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp currants
1 McIntosh apple, cut into thin slices
1/4 cup fresh mint leaves, chopped

Preheat oven to 375.  Toast almonds on a baking sheet for about 7 minutes, then chop them.

Boil 2 cups water.  Stir in quinoa, cover, and allow it to simmer for 15 minutes. 

Mix the lemon juice, honey, shallot, curry powder, salt, and a sprinkling of pepper in a bowl.  Whisk in olive oil until dispersed, then stir in the currants, nuts, apple, mint, and quinoa.

I couldn't find currants at my grocery store, so I used raisins instead.