Enter your email & we’ll send it to your inbox. Plus, get great new recipes from us every week! By submitting this form, you consent to receive emails from Hurry the Food Up. We have created a unique egg salad, with slightly-soft boiled eggs, beetroot, quinoa and fresh leaves! It’s colourful, full of flavour and super duper healthy. And it only takes 15 minutes to put together! The base of leafy greens is wonderfully crunchy, while the beetroot adds a pop of colour and a sharp tang, which offsets the mild flavour of jammy eggs. The very first time I tried this recipe there was something missing – I felt hungry 30 minutes later. And that’s not a pleasant feeling when you have a busy day in front of you. Something was missing. It turns out quinoa was the key. Quinoa gives this salad some bulk, making it more filling than a standard salad of just veggies. The feta cheese sprinkled over the top is rich and salty, the perfect addition. Couscous works just as well, too. If your mouth is already watering at the thought of all those lovely flavours, textures and colours – wait until you hear about how healthy it is! You’ll be drooling!
Great EGG-xpectations for this healthy egg salad!
The ingredients in this salad could NOT get any healthier. Egg AND quinoa!? It’s a health conscious vegetarian’s dream. Eggs are one of the most nutritious foods on the planet, and quinoa is a certified superfood and one of few plant-based sources of complete protein! Check out our healthy huevos rancheros, for another great egg recipe, or our lentil quinoa salad, if it’s quinoa that you’re excited about! A look at the overall nutritional data for this dish gives you an idea of what you’ll be eating. One serving is 441 kcal, which is the perfect amount for a lunch time meal. It can be hard to make a salad that contains enough calories to constitute a full meal, as leaves and veggies tend to be very low in calories. If we’re too low on calories we’ll run out of energy quickly and/or give in to cravings that might sidetrack our healthy eating plans entirely. That’s one of the reasons we made this a quinoa egg salad, because the quinoa provides a good helping of calories to keep you full up until dinnertime.
A healthy AND high-protein egg salad
The most stand out feature of this salad is that it has 24g protein per serving!! That’s basically half the average recommended amount of between 46-56g depending on your sex and weight. Casually busting the myth that vegetarians can’t get enough protein! The fact that this healthy egg salad has so much protein in it means that it is also a good option for anyone looking to lose weight. Protein rich foods help to reduce the levels of hunger hormone ghrelin, making them super filling. Filling foods fend off hunger for longer, meaning you are less likely to snack between meals. Therefore, a portion of this protein-rich salad for lunch should help you maintain a slim calorie deficit, by reducing the need to top up on snacks! There’s a reason this is one of our fave lunch ideas for vegetarians AND one of our fave protein-packed egg recipes as well! Check out our vegetarian weight loss course if you want to learn more stuff like this about how to healthily and effectively lose weight as a vegetarian.
How to cook jammy eggs
If you don’t know what jammy eggs are, they are basically eggs that have been boiled to the point that the yolk is almost completely hard, but still a bit soft and sticky right in the centre. The perfect egg in my opinion! How long to boil an egg for can be something of a mystery. A seemingly simple task and yet I’m sure we’ve all peeled an egg we believed to be cooked through, only to discover that it’s practically raw. There are many variables that can affect how long it takes for an egg to cook: size, temperature etc However, when prepping this recipe, we worked out that a pretty safe bet is 6 minutes 30 seconds for a very soft boiled egg, and 7 minutes for a firmer but still jammy egg. Hopefully that helps! We recommend going for firmer eggs for this healthy egg salad, as this is a salad and you probably don’t want yolk all over your leaves! But really, that’s up to you! Enjoy!
