Quinoa Recipes

[becca]

I really will hav eto make those in a tiny size as a party app sometime.  They seem well suited to that with the sauce. 

I have had a quinoa/egg/kale breakfast scramble the last 2 days.  Yesterday had a bit of turkey sausage, and today, bacon.  a bit of sweet red pepper, onion and cheese too.  Friend gave me the idea.  it was yummy.  No recipe, just threw it together. 

[twinturbo]

becca (or anyone) do you have any quinoa-fish combos? Like tuna or salmon, have to balance out the mercury content of tuna but I eat it in moderation.

[krasota]

I generally don't like fish.  I sometimes make fish tacos and have quinoa & beans as a complementary filling/side dish.

I imagine one could do a foil covered dish in the oven with fish, quinoa, water, and seasoning. (I'm thinking of a friend who would pair catfish fillets with yellow rice packets in the oven.)  Quinoa cooks in 15 minutes, but doesn't get mushy unless you really overcook it for a loooong time.  So it holds up well. 

[becca]

TT, I like to think of Quinoa as my rice.  I use it in moderation as the rice to other dishes.  Mind you, even if I have brown rice with a meal, I have only 1/2 cup. amd more of the stir fry (or Thai take out). 

So, use it as you might rice, with your usual cuisine. 

Otherwise, I like it in salads.  I dice any veggies, and make a dressing, and use 1/2 to 1 cup cooked quinoa in the salad.  That may give me 6 servings.  a couple of sides for dinner, and a whole meal for lunch for 2 days. 

I tend not to do recipes. 

So, with a piece of fish, I might have salmon, a veg, and a quinoa salad that goes with it, meaning the quinoa is mixed with loads of veggies and a dressing. 

But I am pretty low carb vs most folks. 

[becca]

This looks yummy.  Have not made it.  Typically, with these, I increase the veggies and decrease the quinoa to lower the carbs.  So, I might use baby spinach or baby Kale, chopped, in a larger quantity than the 2 leves of Kale.

  http://familyspice.com/recipes/recipe/?recipe_id=570

[nameless]

This looks yummy.  Have not made it.  Typically, with these, I increase the veggies and decrease the quinoa to lower the carbs.  So, I might use baby spinach or baby Kale, chopped, in a larger quantity than the 2 leves of Kale.

  http://familyspice.com/recipes/recipe/?recipe_id=570

might be a nice Christmas brunch dish!

[nameless]

oh wait a minute --- raw cranberries...chopped...but raw.

Hmmmm...not so much.

[becca]

Oh, I did not notice that.  I would just improvise with dried cranberries.  Dried cherries plump up very nicely in a salad as well.  I made a cous cous salad once with dried cherries.  It had a balsamic dressing and they got soft and juicy in it as it sat.  it was very good. 

[nameless]

http://buttercupandbourbon.com/2014/01/26/quinoa-risotto-with-roasted-butternut-squash/

[Macabre]

I made one this morning with butternut squash. I will have to look at yours.

[nameless]

I made one this morning with butternut squash. I will have to look at yours.

what was your recipe?

This one was easy and I think it'll be a base for many things. After making it, I don't think I needed to add broth 1/2 cup at a time and sit and stir. I was using a 4" deep non-stick large skillet --- next time - I'll add 2 cups of broth and let it simmer and not keep a constant stir. Then do the last 1/2 cups separately to keep control of how liquidy it gets.

I also used the new Swanson ZERO SALT chicken stock. It's a pretty good flavor/base.

[becca]

That looks very yummy!

[Macabre]

I wonder what I could use instead of sage.

[nameless]

I wonder what I could use instead of sage.

I'm not even tasting the sage.  Anything that goes with chicken stock is fair game. Next time I might use thyme.

A

[Macabre]

I would be using No-Chicken Stock. I so think thyme would work well