How to eat quinoa correctly
Steamed food
Stew rice with quinoa alone. The stewing time is about 10- 15 minutes, and it can be used after it is swollen and transparent.
Cookable porridge
The organic raw grain Chenopodium album is mixed with other whole grains, and the cooking time is the same as that of whole grains.
Boilable soup
Quinoa tastes fragrant and is very suitable for making soup with other materials.
Can be used as a drink.
Stir-fry Chenopodium and quinoa until golden brown and fragrant, put a spoonful in a cup and take it with boiling water, one cup a day to strengthen the body.
Can be used as a side dish
Quinoa can also be used with other ingredients to make special dishes. For example, quinoa sea cucumber and quinoa fruit salad are more suitable for women who love beauty and lose weight.
The practice of quinoa
Quinoa rice
When steaming quinoa rice, you need to soak it for several hours in advance. Quinoa is a kind of food with compound starch and high dietary fiber. It takes a long time to absorb enough water before steaming and is easy to soften. For example: colorful quinoa rice, fried quinoa, quinoa eight-treasure rice.
Quinoa eight-treasure rice
Quinoa eight-treasure rice is made of raisins, medlar, almonds, red dates, lotus seeds and quinoa, which is rich in nutrition and sweet in taste. This is a special kind of nutrition porridge.
manufacturing process
1. Prepare a small bowl, brush a layer of cooking oil evenly on the bottom of the bowl, and put patterns or characters on the bottom of the bowl with medlar.
2. Spread a layer of steamed quinoa rice evenly on the surface of Lycium barbarum, and flatten the surface by hand.
3. Sprinkle red dates, longan pulp and persimmon diced evenly on the quinoa rice.
4. Spread a layer of steamed quinoa rice evenly on it and flatten the surface by hand. Lotus seeds are scattered on the edge of quinoa rice to form a circle, and walnuts and almonds are placed in the center of the circle.
5. Spread a layer of steamed quinoa rice evenly on it and flatten the surface by hand.
6. Raisins are sprinkled on the edge of quinoa rice to form a circle, and medlar is placed in the center of the circle. Put water in the pot to support the steaming rack, and put a bowl with quinoa rice on the rack.
7. An empty plate is put upside down in a bowl. Cover the pot and steam for 15 minutes.
Take out the bowl and pour it on the plate.
Quinoa porridge
When cooking porridge, cook it in boiling water for about 15 minutes, and then eat it after it expands and the seeds become translucent. Don't use too much firepower when stewing rice. If you use a rice cooker, the amount of water should be a little more. In order to make quinoa more fragrant, you can bake it in a dry frying pan for a few minutes and then put it in the pot. During the baking process, you should constantly stir it to make it evenly heated to avoid burning.
Quinoa rice ball
Mix with other grains, such as: quinoa millet porridge, quinoa rice porridge, quinoa stew rice and quinoa wheat cake.
Quinoa burrito
Mix with other ingredients to make special dishes. Generally, quinoa is cooked separately before being cooked with other ingredients, such as sea cucumber (both on land and sea), roasted abalone with quinoa (nutritious meal), quinoa fruit salad (nutritious diet meal), steamed meat with quinoa, quinoa red date pumpkin porridge (beauty detoxification), quinoa duck porridge, quinoa cake and quinoa cod, or eaten with other ingredients after germination.
Quinoa fruit salad
Cooking soup, quinoa has a fragrant taste, which is very suitable for cooking soup with other materials, and can also remove the fishy smell of fish, such as quinoa abalone soup, quinoa spinach tomato soup, quinoa straw mushroom soup, quinoa chicken soup and quinoa tomato oxtail soup.
Drinks, quinoa rice paste or drinks made after paste are all delicious, such as quinoa paste mixed with various fruits to make juice drinks, or quinoa soybean milk.
Chenopodium tea, stir-fry quinoa until it is golden and fragrant, put a few spoonfuls in a cup and drink it with boiling water every day to strengthen the body.
Chicken soup with quinoa tofu balls
material
Old tofu, quinoa, pig hind legs, shallots, sesame oil, salt.
working methods
1. Put quinoa into a small bowl, add appropriate amount of cold water to the surface of quinoa, stir it with chopsticks for several times, and drain the water.
Put enough cold water into the casserole, and the fire will make a noise in the pot. Put the washed quinoa into the pot.
3. Cook over high fire for 15 minutes until the mature surface of quinoa blooms, and drain the quinoa with a colander.
4. Take a closer look, the cooked quinoa looks like the picture.
5. Put the old tofu into the bowl and press it with a rolling pin.
6. Mash old tofu into tofu paste
7. Slice the pig's hind legs with a knife and chop them into powder.
8. put minced pork in tofu sauce
9. Drained cooked quinoa is also put into tofu sauce.
10. Stir in one direction with chopsticks to make the three ingredients stir evenly.
1 1. Add a proper amount of salt to the bowl.
12. Wash shallots and cut them into chopped green onions.
13. Put chopped green onion into a bowl and pour a few drops of sesame oil.
14. Stir in one direction with chopsticks to mix the ingredients and seasonings evenly.
15. Wet your right hand with a small amount of cold water and grab a small amount of prepared tofu stuffing in your hand.
16. The other four points of the right hand, except the thumb, bend in the direction of the palm, and gently touch the trace under the first thumb. At the same time, the right hand stands upright, and the bent four fingers squeeze the thumb toward the palm, so that the quinoa bean curd sauce will be squeezed out from the jaws, and the bean curd sauce will be put back in the palm of your hand and squeezed out several times to form a dense bean curd ball.
17. Take the tofu ball with your left hand and your right hand.
18. All prepared tofu balls
19. The prepared tofu balls are scattered on the plate.
20. spoon in the right amount of chicken soup.
2 1. Put the plate into the steamer, cover the pot, and steam for 8 minutes on high fire until the tofu balls are cooked.
22. Blanch the green leaves and carrot slices in a boiling water pot and remove them after controlling the water.
23. Put tofu balls, vegetables and carrot slices into a bowl and scoop in chicken soup.