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This Stone Fruit Quinoa Salad is full of summer’s best produce! Plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and basil mixed with quinoa. Toss the salad in a honey lime dressing for a healthy summer side dish!
You guys I think Colorado is confused again. This whole week it’s been cloudy, rainy, and even a little cold. I feel ridiculous saying this, but I had a sweatshirt on twice this week, what the heck! It’s July and yet it’s been feeling more like September. Slow down mother nature I’m definitely not ready for fall!
I was just starting to get color back in my skin, my beautiful running and biking tan lines have returned (enter sarcasm here), and I’m by no means ready to return to my yoga pants and sweatshirt days! Luckily, the weather forecast says the sun should be returning this weekend along with warm weather. Hopefully that’s true and I don’t have to grill in the rain again with my husband trying to hold an umbrella over me so the food and I don’t get soaked.
Enough about the weather. Let’s talk about this Stone Fruit Quinoa Salad. Stone fruit is finally in season and that means all the juicy nectarines, peaches, apricots, and plums are popping up in the stores. I love the beautiful colors of the fruit and they turn this quinoa salad into a rainbow of oranges, reds, and yellows.
I made a delicious honey lime dressing to go on this stone fruit quinoa salad. If you want to make the salad vegan, simply substitute maple syrup for the honey. The dressing is light, tangy, and fresh paired with the earthy quinoa and sweet fruit.
Since I have a ton of basil growing in my garden right now, I added it in as well. If you don’t have basil or don’t like it omit it or substitute with fresh mint instead. This salad is a great side dish along with your favorite grilled meat. It would be amazing with this Honey Lime Salmon. Thanks to all the protein in the quinoa, this salad also works as a vegetarian main dish lunch or dinner.
More Summer Salads
Farro Salad with Peaches and Figs
Barley Salad with Chickpeas and Cherries
Stone Fruit Quinoa Salad
Ingredients
Stone Fruit Quinoa Salad
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa cooked according to package instructions
- 1 plum diced
- 1 nectarine diced
- 1 peach diced
- 2 apricots diced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
Honey Lime Dressing
- 1/2 teaspoon lime zest
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons honey maple syrup to make recipe vegan
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook the quinoa according to package instructions and let it cool completely. Dice all of the fruit and chop the basil, then mix it gently into the cooled quinoa.
- In a glass measuring cup or small bowl whisk together the honey lime dressing ingredients. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss everything together. Taste for seasoning. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This salad looks like the perfect lunch! Yummy! Must try!!!
Thanks Justine!
What a perfect, perfect summer salad. YUM :D
Thanks Kate!
So KC has definitely been confused too! Rainy cloudy ad cold too! Ugh. But loving every bit of this salad! I would gladly make this and devour it!
Isn’t it annoying Meg!? Our weather is finally back to normal this weekend thank goodness! Hope you are having a great weekend!
This salad is so beautiful! I love the color combo and I definitely can’t say no to all those lovely stone fruits. It looks so delish and refreshing! xx
Thanks Consuelo! Stone fruit is something I can never resist!
My oh my this is just stunning!! Stone fruits are always so delicious on their own but in a salad? I bet they are amazing!! What a great recipe! Pinned!
Thanks Zainab! I love stone fruit and try to find as many ways as I can to use it this time of year! Have a great weekend!
Will you believe me if I told you that it rained in San Francisco yesterday?? The weather has been a bit wonky over here, too!
LOVE all the fruits you have in this salad, Danae!
Thanks Lisa! I’m glad to hear Colorado isn’t the only one getting bizarre weather. Hopefully yours cleared up for the weekend!
I just bookmarked a recipe that was a lot like this last night, but yours looks even better! Such a perfect summer salad!
Aww, thanks Jessica! It’s a bowl full of summer flavors for sure!
THE COLOR of this salad is SO SO PRETTY! I love how you use tri colored quinoa!
I am all about stone fruits, and that dressing is SO my jam! Pinned!
Thanks Taylor! Tri-color quinoa is my favorite, plus it makes everything look prettier!
Just made this tonight and WOW. It was the perfect summer recipe, easy to make without heating up the whole kitchen. We didn’t have quinoa in the pantry so I subbed Israeli couscous made in my instant pot (no hot stove burner required). Roughly doubled the amount of couscous, did not need to double the dressing. Used a bag of mixed plums for the fruit as that’s what we had. SO GOOD. Served as the main course with a side of avocado toast.
I’m so glad you liked the salad Kate and Israeli couscous is a great alternative to quinoa!
What a great summer salad!
Thanks Julianne!