The Recipe: No more boring chicken salad! Notch up chicken salad with chickpeas, olives and Indian-style spices in a yogurt dressing. Hearty and delicious with tons of protein, this is definitely a "savory" chicken salad. For Weight Watchers? It's very Freestyle SmartPoints friendly, all the ingredients except one (olives) are zero points! ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ This recipe is so quick and easy that I'm adding it to a special collection of easy summer recipes published every summer since 2009. Watch for new "summer easy" recipes all summer long! With a free e-mail subscription , you'll never miss a one! COMPLIMENTS! "... love the spice combination, 'different' but not weird, if you know what I mean ..." ~ Anonymous Add yours, leave a comment, below! Health Guidance from the USDA The new food pyramid unveiled last spring by the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers, well, modest improveme...

My favorite taste-tester says that the first bite of this salad takes him straight back to Deep Mexico. The salad is hearty with high-protein quinoa, crunchy with vegetables and bright with lime. It's a real crowd pleaser! Vegan. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free. Great for Ingredient-Driven Mexican Meal Prep . ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ COMPLIMENTS! "Really loved this salad." ~ Lesley BEST RECIPES! Quinoa & Black Bean Salad was one of 2005's "Best Recipes"! Best Recipes of 2005 Allillanchu! Say "allillanchu" (that means hello!) to quinoa, a new food friend. Her name is pronounced KEEN-wah and she’s from South America where she’s been cultivated for five thousand years. The ancient Incas called her "chesiya mama", that means "mother grain". But the fact is, quinoa is not a grain at all but the fruit of a plant related to beets, chard and spinach. Still, she’s prepared and ...