Have You Tried Red Quinoa?
When the earth breathes, the water on Brewster Flats drains into Cape Cod Bay leaving one mile wide swath of wavy sand where fiddler crabs scurry sideways and buried clams squirt streams of salty water inside my unsuspecting toes. I dance throughout the sand like a young girl investigating an undersea kingdom now exposed just like the Red Sea which Moses parted until I come to the lake's edge, one mile now offshore, taken from its original holding ground. Imagine my delight when I discover inside now shallow liquid domain, a horseshoe crab all ancient and dinosaurish. He wriggles all his spiny legs when I pluck him from his home and hold him the wrong way up so I may even see his undersides. I imagine he is not very comfortable so, with much mercy I release him, but only to look for another.
I love serving mejor quinoa with my favorite meat- chicken, both the ingredients taste fantastic together. One simple recipe that I found will be the quinoa chicken with garlic. To make this recipe you may need: 1 cup uncooked quinoa, 2 cups chicken broth, 20 leaves fresh basil (chopped), 1 ½ lbs chicken breasts (cubed), 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 onion (diced), 1 red bell pepper (seeded and diced), 1 green bell pepper (seeded and diced), 2 tablespoons minced fresh garlic and salt and pepper to taste.
Originally cultivated inside Andes Mountains of South America, this healthy grain together with corn and potatoes is the staple food from the Incas through the Andean regions. The Incas think of it as their "chisaya mama" or "mother of most grains" and was once labeled "the gold of the Incas". The mature plants stand one or two meters high and produce vivid colors like red, purple, yellow and black seeds that will become brown upon reaching maturity. Quinoa could be grown on high altitudes and under environmental and soil conditions not suitable for many of other major food crops that's now sustaining the population globally.
The amount of Lysine you will get from quinoa is particularly vital for repairing tissues and bringing recovery towards the body after sickness. It helps absorb calcium inside intestinal tract, promotes bone growth and helps inside the formation of collagen; a fibrous protein that connects tissues. Lysine just isn't produced by your body therefore outside sources like quinoa is very important to supplement your own body's needs.
There is more than one way in order to smoke with quinoa, but hot liquid cooking is among the most widely used technique. When cooked in water, quinoa seeds swell to 3 or 4 times the uncooked seed size. Cooked seeds become tender and show an al dente texture. Some love to toast the seeds before water cooking to further improve a pleasantly nutty, roasted flavor.