Greens and Grains
I discovered cooking with quinoa while employed by Weight Watchers whenever they had the Core Plan. As leaders, we were required not just to learn the new programs, but to really "live" this program for two weeks. Quinoa was a great discovery personally and has become a staple during my house. What you will like about quinoa around the nutritional side is that it is often a complete protein, though it looks, aqui tastes and cooks like a grain. A wonderful food for vegetarians, definitely. A quirky fact about quinoa: it's technically a seed, which is related to spinach, chard, and beets. Definitely appealing nutritionally.
Quinoa recipes are quick and simple to prepare. Quinoa is cooked so much like rice; Use 2 glasses of water plus 1 cup of quinoa boil and simmer for 12 - 15 minutes. You can now mix this cooked quinoa with many vegetables and herbs in a number of different procedures. You can also cook it with vegetable or chicken broth for any more flavorful dish. Mix it with a little bit of cinnamon and sugar or honey, nuts or berries, and it creates a delicious and nutritious high-protein meal anytime. Substitute quinoa for rice or pasta within your favorite salad recipe.
My first-time up I decided I would show my daughter the amount I actually enjoyed cooking and that I really could try this (and that I wasn't so 'lame' all things considered). So I spent one hour on the internet finding out 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, many different stir-fried peppers, Thai chilis, lime, soy sauce and garlic fried in extra virgin olive oil on a bed of rice stick (don't feel bad, I didn't know what 'rice stick' was either). I must have spent $25 putting that first meal together due to the fact it involved a host of ingredients that had never entered home. The dish was a big hit.
Instructions: First squeeze milk in to a medium-sized pan, add the water and quinoa grain and convey to the boil, miss the heat and simmer for fifteen minutes approx, or before rice has absorbed all of the liquid. Then stir inside chopped pecans and cinnamon. Transfer items in the pan to some serving dish, place either the blueberries or strawberries in addition to the cooked quinoa and drip in the nectar. Voila...a very simple yet extremely tasty breakfast recipe that literally takes minutes to arrange.
Quinoa is sold in whole foods stores and some large mainstream food markets as a whole grain, flakes, flour plus pasta products. Quinoa will come in a range of seed colors from orange, pink and yellow to purple and black. Yellow to light, creamy-colored seeds and flours are the variety mostly available in gluten-free products.