Southwest Quinoa Salad

Ingredients

• One cup dry quinoa
• One cup black beans
• One cup corn-frozen and thawed or cut off the cob
• One medium baked sweet potato, cooled and diced
• Handful of grape or cherry tomatoes, cut in half
• One diced yellow and/or orange pepper
• 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
• 1/2 cup pine nuts of pumpkin seeds
• One avocado, diced and added at the end
• 1/2  cup chopped mango
Dressing:
• Juice of two limes(or more to taste)
• 1/2-1/3 cup olive oil
• 3/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon or more of pepper
• dash or two of cayenne

Instructions

1. Cook quinoa in 2 cups water for 20 minutes. Cool
2. Chop vegetables and add to quinoa
3. Make dressing and add to remaining ingredients
4. Sprinkle with cayenne