Clean Chicken Quinoa Salad with Green Beans and Onions

This is a great recipe to make that tasty organic chicken last you longer than a night. Using your homemade broth to cook the quinoa and green beans adds such a loving, satisfying depth of flavor you'll feel like you're eating homemade stuffing on thanksgiving. The herbs, onions and almonds complement each other in such a delicious way it's simply superb. I actually ended up sharing this with my class on Human Health and Agriculture and all were very appreciative and very thankful, so in a way it was sort of thanksgiving. So let this dish be a last little bit of the holidays as we finally enter into warmer months:)

Ingredients:
-1 cup organic quinoa
-3 cups homemade chicken broth
-1 package trader joe's frozen french green beans
-2 cups shredded, cooked chicken
-2 tbsps chicken fat (or other oil)
-1 sweet onion(finely sliced)
-1 clove garlic(minced)
-1/2 cut slivered almonds
-1 tbsp Italian seasonings(mix of sage, rosemary, thyme, basil..)
-1/2 tsp rosemary
-juice from 1/2 lemon

Directions:

1. use 1 1/2 cups of broth to cook your quinoa (bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 15min) and set aside
2. use the other 1 1/2 cups of broth to cook your green beans, bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer for 10 mins or until tender
3. meanwhile, heat the chicken fat from your stock in a pan, add the onion and cook until they begin to turn clear (5min) 
4. add your garlic, cook for 2 minutes
5. add the slivered almonds and cook until slightly toasted and lower heat
6. now add your shredded chicken, quinoa, spices and lemon juice,cook until warm
7. drain the green beans and add to the pan, remove from heat, mix together and serve warm
8. enjoy!