Keen on Quinoa
Oct 22nd, 2008 by QuirkyVegan
Tonight I cooked quinoa for the first time in ages. I had forgotten how good it tastes. Apparently quinoa isn’t a grain at all but seeds of a pseudocereal. No I didn’t make that up, it’s in Wikipedia, so it must be true! 
The origins and history of this little seed are quite fascinating, it’s a damn shame our Spanish text book didn’t go into this detail when we were looking at indigenous peoples of South America.
I didn’t get a pic for you (my folks already think this vegan thing is getting out of hand, I just cannot be bothered with the aggravation if they see me taking photos of my dinner!). You will just have to believe me that I cooked my quinoa with green raisins and pumpkin seeds, and it complemented my lentil dhal beautifully. Another way I’ve had quinoa is as a salad with dried mango. Yum!
Note to self: must make an effort to eat this fabulous food more often, it’s just as easy to cook as rice and couscous.
Quinoa is wonderful. Though it looks akin to fish eyes on cooking.
I know this an old post, but I have been reading a bunch of them here and just had to comment on it. I tried organic Quinoa for the first time recently. I am a big lover of brown rice and the Quinoa was not as good for me. I think I need to look into the best way to cook it. And maybe the best uses for it are not the same as for brown rice? I bought a big bag of it so I will certainly be researching it!
I recently made a salad with quinoa. I’ll have to post the recipe. I think you can swap it for brown rice in most cases. Have to admit that it is something I go through phases of eating, forgetting about, then rediscovering