Quinoa, as a versatile ingredient, does not overpower with any food. It can be eaten alone as a staple, or as a side dish, mixed with fruits and vegetables, meat, eggs and milk. Here we talk about the right way to eat it.

I. Eat it alone:

1. Steam quinoa rice.

Scrub the Nukasi quinoa rice a few times (to make sure the saponins on the outside of the seeds dissolve) and start cooking. For a "dry rice" effect, it is recommended to add a small amount of water to the quinoa, just above the surface of the quinoa (ratio: quinoa: water 1.5:2). Cook the quinoa for 15-20 minutes, until the seeds are transparent, bulbous, and sprouting small white circles (germ), that is, they are cooked and ready to eat.

Pure quinoa rice

2. Cook porridge.

When cooking porridge, boil it in boiling water for about 15 minutes or so, so that it expands and the seeds become translucent, and then you can eat it. The fire should not be too high when stewing, if you use a rice cooker, the amount of water should be slightly more. It should be noted that during the baking process, it should be stirred constantly to make it heat evenly to avoid scorching. If steamed, you need to soak a few hours in advance, quinoa is a complex starch high dietary fiber food, steam before the need for a long time to absorb enough water is easy to become soft.

You can also mix quinoa with fruits, or grains, such as: quinoa fruit porridge, quinoa oatmeal porridge, quinoa millet porridge, quinoa rice porridge, etc. (that is, when you make white rice porridge, put in a handful of quinoa, you can greatly reduce the consumption of the postprandial glycemic index).

Two, quinoa dishes

With other ingredients to make special dishes, generally cooked quinoa alone and then cooked with other ingredients, such as: quinoa fruit salad (nutritional diet), quinoa steamed meat, quinoa fruits and vegetables dishes, quinoa cake, quinoa cod, you can also sprout the quinoa with other ingredients to consume, higher nutrition.

As an example:

Quinoa Pumpkin Salad

Information list:

Nukasi quinoa (50g), pumpkin, various types of lettuce, red peppers, yellow peppers, carrots, small tomatoes, chopped dried fruits

Practice:

The pumpkin baked, than steaming out of the dry, the texture is better

(1) pumpkin slices. Steam or bake, depending on the thickness may take 15-20 minutes, leave to cool;

(2) Nukasi quinoa rinsed, put into a pot, add water and cook for about 15 minutes, strain and cool;

(3) red and yellow peppers shredded. Small tomatoes cut in half; water carrots cut into thin slices;

(4) Lettuce leaves on the bottom, then put a variety of ingredients, drizzled with lemon juice with salt, plus a little olive oil, tossed to serve.

Three, cooking soup

Quinoa has a clear flavor is very suitable for soup with other materials, but also to remove the fish and meat fishy flavor, such as: quinoa winter melon soup, quinoa sea cucumber soup, quinoa mushroom soup, quinoa soup, quinoa soup with shredded chicken and so on.

The above is the correct way to eat quinoa. Of course, there are many more ways to do it, so feel free to be as creative as you want, after all, this grain harmonizes with almost every ingredient in the ground.