Quinoa is eaten in the same way as other grains. Cooking methods are similar to white rice and wheat. In addition to rice and porridge as the staple food, or salad to increase satiety, you can also spread a layer of quinoa on the bottom when stewing or barbecue, which can completely absorb gravy and is quite delicious. It is also highly recommended that you can cook quinoa with vegetable soup or chicken into soup, and then add chopped garlic, fresh rosemary and other herbs or spices, as well as a proper amount of black pepper, so as to make a delicious and healthy soup.
1. quinoa rice: when cooking porridge, put it in boiling water for about 15 minutes to make it swell and the seeds become translucent, so it can be eaten. Don't use too much firepower when stewing rice. If you use a rice cooker, the amount of water should be a little more. In order to make quinoa more fragrant, you can bake it in a dry frying pan for a few minutes and then put it in the pot. During the baking process, you should constantly stir it to make it evenly heated to avoid burning. If it is steamed, it needs to be soaked for several hours in advance. Quinoa is a kind of food with compound starch and high dietary fiber. It takes a long time to absorb enough water before steaming to soften easily.
2. Quinoa millet porridge: quinoa millet porridge, quinoa millet porridge, quinoa rice stew, and wheat flour cake.
3. Soaking sea cucumber with quinoa: Generally, quinoa is cooked separately and then cooked with other ingredients, such as quinoa soaked sea cucumber (both on land and sea), quinoa braised abalone (nutritious meal), quinoa fruit salad (nutritious diet meal), quinoa steamed meat, quinoa red date pumpkin porridge (beauty detoxification), quinoa cake and quinoa cod. After germination, it can also be eaten with other ingredients, which is more nutritious.
4. Quinoa sparerib soup: Quinoa is fragrant, which is very suitable for making soup with other materials, and can also remove the fishy smell of fish, such as: quinoa abalone soup, quinoa spinach tomato soup, quinoa straw mushroom soup, quinoa shredded chicken soup and quinoa tomato oxtail soup.
5. quinoa soybean milk: quinoa made into rice paste or pulp is very delicious, such as quinoa pulp mixed with various fruits to make juice drinks, or Cheng Kun quinoa soybean milk.
The proportion of quinoa cooked in non-electric cookers;
1: 3 → 1 cup of dry quinoa can cook about 3 cups of cooked quinoa.
1: 2 → Boil 1 cup of dried quinoa, with 2 glasses of water, please.
Ingredients (4-6 people):
1 cup of quinoa (black, white or red, whichever is acceptable), olive oil (optional), 2 cups of filtered water (or broth), 1/2 teaspoons of salt.
Step 1 filtering and washing quinoa;
Put the quinoa on the filter screen, move it under the tap and rinse it with clean water. At the same time, gently rub it with your hands for about 2 minutes, and then drain it.
The shell of quinoa itself contains saponin, which will make the cooked quinoa bitter, so it must be washed with water first. Some cookbooks will teach you to soak quinoa in water. Actually, you don't have to spend time soaking. Saponin can be removed by filtration and washing, and more nutrients can be retained.
Fried quinoa:
Pour a little olive oil into the pot, heat it on medium heat, then add the drained quinoa, and stir it for about 1 min while heating, so that the water on the surface of quinoa will evaporate. Stir-frying first can make quinoa taste more fluffy. If it is too much trouble, you can skip it and add water directly.
Add water to boil:
Pour two glasses of water into the pot, or you can directly add broth to cook, so that the cooked quinoa will be more delicious! Then add salt and cook until the liquid in the pot boils, turn to low heat, cover and continue cooking for about 15 minutes. If black quinoa is cooked, the cooking time should be extended to 20 minutes as appropriate because it is shelled late.
Turn off the fire and sit still;
/kloc-Turn off the fire after 0/5 minutes, remove the pot from the gas stove without lifting the lid, let the pot stew at the residual temperature for 5 minutes, and then open the lid to enjoy! Because the thermal conductivity of each pot is different, the heating degree of quinoa is also different; If there is still a little water in the pot, or the taste of quinoa is still crisp, you can cover the pot and cook it again on low heat. After boiling for 5 minutes, open the lid and check until the water is completely absorbed.
The grain of quinoa is much smaller than that of white rice, and it tastes tasteless. Some people may not be used to it, but it is very suitable for the elderly and children! It is recommended to eat quinoa first, and you can add quinoa to white rice to eat together. After getting used to it, it is also very good to enjoy it with brown rice and purple rice!