🔥Eda's Recipe Rotation · Soups & Salads

Cauliflower & Quinoa Tabbouli

A lighter tabbouli — cauliflower rice and quinoa in place of most of the bulgur, packed with parsley, mint, cucumber, and cherry tomato, in a bright Meyer-lemon dressing.

Blood SugarEnergyGut
Cauliflower & Quinoa Tabboulimade by Eda
Serves
3
Time
25 min
Calories
~200
Meal-prep
×3

Why it works

🌾

Steady blood sugar

Cauliflower rice keeps the carbs low and the fiber high — gentler than classic bulgur tabbouli.

cauliflower rice
⚡

Plant protein

Quinoa is a complete plant protein to keep you going.

quinoa
🌿

Gut & vitamin K

Loads of fresh parsley and mint bring fiber, vitamin K, and bright flavor.

parsley · mint

01 The tabbouli

toss

The tabbouli

  • 1½ cupscooked quinoacomplete plant protein
  • 1 cupraw cauliflower ricelow-carb, high fiber
  • ½ cup + ¼ cupchopped parsley + mintvitamin K
  • 1 + 1 cupPersian cucumber, diced + cherry tomatoes, halved
  • ½red onion, chopped
  1. Sauté the cauliflower rice briefly and let it cool.
  2. Chop the herbs and vegetables fine, then combine with the quinoa.

02 Meyer-lemon dressing

scratch or buy

Meyer-lemon dressing

  • 1Meyer lemon, juiced
  • 2 Tbsp + ½ tspolive oil + honey
  • to tastesalt + pepper
  1. Whisk together and dress generously. (Or use a bottled lemon vinaigrette.)

Make it work harder (optional)

Add white beans, lentils, or a lean protein to blunt the glucose spike and turn it into a full meal.

What's in it & what it does

🌾

Cauliflower rice

A low-carb, high-fiber stand-in for bulgur.

🍚

Quinoa

A complete plant protein.

🌿

Parsley & mint

Vitamin K and bright, fresh flavor.

🍋

Meyer lemon

Bright acidity instead of a heavy dressing.

Made & in Eda's rotation · hotflashcook.com