Quinoa is rich in vitamins, polyphenols, flavonoids, saponins and phytosterols, with a high content of protein. Its fat contains 83% unsaturated fatty acid, which plays a beneficial role in the metabolism of sugar and lipid and has many health-care effects. Long-term consumption of quinoa is helpful to prevent various metabolic diseases and keep healthy.

2. How to eat quinoa

There are many ways to eat quinoa, such as making quinoa rice or porridge; When steaming steamed bread, pancakes, zongzi, rice balls and baking bread, you can also add some quinoa to increase the taste and nutrition; Cooked and made into quinoa salad; Mix with chicken breast and cashew nuts. Cook chicken breast with sauce, cashew nuts and quinoa rice.

Here, take chicken breast with sauce flavor, cashew nuts and quinoa rice as examples to introduce their practices, as follows:

Ingredients: quinoa, chicken breast, onion, cashew nuts, colored pepper, onion and garlic.

Step 1: Prepare food, and clean quinoa, chicken breast, onion, colored pepper, onion, cashew nuts and garlic.

Step 2: Cut the onion into small pieces.

Step 3, cut the colored pepper into small pieces.

Step four, cut the chicken breast into diced meat.

Step 5, prepare half a bowl of pure water for sauce, add two spoonfuls of oyster sauce, one spoonful of soy sauce and two spoonfuls of minced garlic, and stir well.

Step 6, prepare a baking tray and spread the cleaned quinoa evenly on the bottom of the tray.

Step 7, spread onion, colored pepper and chicken breast from bottom to top.

Step 8, evenly pour the prepared juice into the baking tray.

Step 9: Put the baking tray in the oven and bake at 200℃ for 40 minutes.

Step 10: Take out the baking tray after baking, and stir the materials in the baking tray evenly.

Step 1 1: Put the evenly stirred roasted quinoa rice into a small bowl, add cashews and onions, and the quinoa rice is ready.

Precautions:

1, it is suggested to choose yellow onion instead of purple onion because yellow onion is sweeter than purple onion.

2. Oyster sauce contains almost no fat, and the calories are very low. There is no burden to add oyster sauce, but if you don't like soy sauce and garlic, you can not add these two seasonings.

3. Onions, colored peppers and chicken inside can be replaced with their favorite ingredients, such as beef, potatoes and spinach.