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Cooking With Quinoa - 5 Red Quinoa Recipes

There are many very simple quinoa breakfast recipes you are able to follow either online or perhaps books, I would like to share with you 3 of the I consider to be my favourites. You will find that quinoa can be so versatile a rice grain, that it is possible to add basically anything to it without overpowering the taste of quinoa rice. Cooking quinoa is quite easy and there are many things you are able to do with it.

Where can you buy quinoa? You can buy quinoa online as a Whole Grain, an organic and organic cultivar mostly from Peru and Bolivia; it is usually sold in 12 oz. packages or boxes. It is cooked within 10 - 15 minutes, wheat free and gluten free, this makes quinoa the right food for people who follow a wheat free and gluten free diet. It is certified organic this means it was planted and cultivated by using an unfertilized and healthy soil.

My very first time up I decided I would show my daughter the amount I actually enjoyed cooking and that I really could do this (and that I wasn't so 'lame' in fact). So I spent an hour on the internet learning about recipes that involved vegetables as being a main dish. What an education. There are so many. I ended up choosing a dish that required Chinese 5-spice, mushrooms, various stir-fried peppers, Thai chilis, lime, soy sauce and garlic fried in essential olive oil on a bed of rice stick (don't feel sick, I didn't know very well what 'rice stick' was either). I must have spent $25 putting that first meal together due to the fact it involved a number of ingredients that had never entered our home. The dish was a big hit.

Cooked quinoa looks as being similar to fish roe, with the exception of the color. The texture is actually like fish roe too therefore it can be considered because the vegetarian version of fish roe! Of course, no have the fishy smell or just about any odor in any way. In fact, quinoa has this pleasant nutty flavor with it that makes it a lot more nicer and refreshing than eating plain starchy rice.

Quinoa (KEEN-wah) is the best method to obtain slow burning carbs you could hope to find. A cup of cooked quinoa also offers 8 grams of protein, which can be more than any grain. With 5 grams of fiber simply 220 calories, you can observe why cooking quinoa makes so much sense if you are trying to shed extra pounds and get in shape.