Quinoa... can it be frozen?

Soon2BThin

Does quinoa freeze well? Also, I am looking for some new recipes .... anyone have any favorites they wish to share?

shovav91

It has always frozen well for me in the past! Just use it within a month or two.
Ingredients
One of my favorites, Southwest quinoa salad! Yum- 140 calories per serving!
1 cup quinoa
1 each red, orange, yellow bell pepper
4 roma tomatoes
1 cucumber
1 bunch cilantro
juice of 1 lime
as much olive oil as lime
cumin, coriander, garlic, salt to taste


Directions

Bring 1 cups quinoa to boil in 2 cups water (and a pinch of salt), simmer 15 mins. and remove from heat. Let cool, fluff with fork and add to finely chopped veggies. Whisk or shake up lime juice with olive oil and desired spices. Toss altogether. Might like to add some heat...

Serving Size: makes 10 x 1c servings

Number of Servings: 10
--Sparkpeople recipes

It's also so good mixed with dried cranberries, apricots, salt, garlic and some other spices.