quinoa???

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  • keem88
    keem88 Posts: 1,689 Member
    QUINOA IS NOT A GRAIN, people!! Come on... do your homework...

    You can use it as a rice sub. People also use it as a meat sub in things like chili. It's really good if you cook it by itself and add a little less than a teaspoon of cajun seasoning to it per one cup (dry). Some people also cook it plain but cook it in chicken broth to give it a flavor. I personally use it in red beans and rice (quinoa instead of rice).

    THANK YOU. i just posted that too lol, people need to learn how to read up on things they eat.
  • jb_2011
    jb_2011 Posts: 1,029 Member
    Quinoa is a seed, that's correct. The bitter coating is called saponin, it's easy to rinse quinoa in a strainer under running water. I fixed a breakfast the other day with 2 scrambled eggs, 2 T. cooked breakfast sausage, 1/2 cup cooked quiona, 2 cups baby spinach and some hot sauce. It was fair, lol. But I added the extra cooked quinoa to a brothy chicken soup yesterday, perfecto! Allrecipes.com has a wonderful recipe for Quiona and Black Beans. Check it out, it's verry good.
  • beautsarah
    beautsarah Posts: 151 Member
    I just can't like quinoa. I've tried. I also can't get over the fact that I think it looks like a bowl full of eyeballs.

    Good luck! :)

    Hahaha it does!
  • pdworkman
    pdworkman Posts: 1,342 Member
    Complete proteins. <sigh>

    The myth continues.
  • Corjogo
    Corjogo Posts: 201 Member
    i just tried to like it and couldnt.. not for the eyeball reason though

    my sister .. instead of stuffing , made a dish with something called farro in it.. which might be similar not sure, but it wasnt half bad

    any body hear of farro?

    Yep - It's a wheat product from Mediterranean area - found mine in an Italian Market . I like it a lot, good for you also.

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