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Quinoa is just about the versatile super food I can ever think about because it doesn't alter the taste of other ingredients. You can cook it and serve it however you want high are a huge number of recipes for quinoa that you could find on the internet. People are kind enough to express their quinoa recipes to us. I like starting my day using a bowl of quinoa because I feel that I have more energy.

A highly durable and resilient crop, Quinoa thrived of these arid high altitude regions but was nearly erased during the 1500 by way of a Spanish explorer named Francisco Pizarro. Quinoa was regarded as being a scared food of the INCA people and Francisco considered that if he destroyed the Quinoa plant he could weaken the culture with the INCA. He was unsuccessful and 5000 years on Quinoa can be acquired on the shelves on most supermarkets.

Now for the nutrition profile: Quinoa contains a nice amount of calcium. One serving of quinoa will give you comparable as a cup of milk. It also contains hefty numbers of zinc, potassium, iron, b vitamins, fiber, and healthy oils. These vitamin supplements give you energy, help with sleep, weight loss, not to mention prevention of illness. But by far the most important factor that sets quinoa besides any other grain is that it contains all 8 essential amino acids so it's actually a complete protein alone.

Another way on how to cook quinoa for lunch is to mix black beans by it. All you need is 2 ½ to a few cups of cooked quinoa, 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil, chopped onion, chopped garlic, pinch of ground cumin, pinch of red pepper cayenne, salt and pepper to taste, 2 cans of drained black beans and chopped cilantro.

Comfort food doesn't have to be fatty. Let's get real about unusual root vegetables. Unless you might be a hard-core foodie, you are not likely to center an entire side dish around something like parsnips or celeraic. The best way to bring these rich, "offstage" root vegetables would be to integrate them with what you know and love.