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Quinoa is very easy to prepare, the quickest way to cook it in a saucepan: pour water 1: 2, heat until boiling and cook for 15 minutes under a lid with a low boil and stirring occasionally.
In the multivariate boil the quinoa the same amount on the “Cooking” mode with the lid closed, or 20 minutes on the “Pilaf” mode. But in a pressure cooker, quinoa is not boiled, since the cereals are boiled under pressure.
How to cook quinoa in a saucepan
For 1 serving, take 1/5 cup, as cereals greatly increase in volume
1. Pour quinoa into a saucepan, wash by grinding the grains, and pour cold water 1: 2 – 1 glass of water for half a glass of quinoa.
2. Put on fire and cook for 15 minutes.
3. Turn off the heat, leave for 5 minutes.
Serve with butter.
How long to cook different varieties
Cook the Mistral quinoa for 15-20 minutes.
Cook cereals from “Bravoli” for 15 minutes.
Cook the Bee Fresh quinoa mixture for 15 minutes.
Boil Royal Forest groats for 15-20 minutes.
How long to cook quinoa for soup
Add cereals directly to the soup and cook for 15 minutes.
How to cook quinoa porridge
Products
Quinoa – half a glass
Milk – half a glass
Honey – 3 tablespoons
Banana – 1 piece
Cinnamon – a pinch
Apples – 1 piece
How to make quinoa porridge
Pour the quinoa into a sieve, rinse well to remove any bitterness, put in a saucepan and pour over the milk. Put a saucepan on fire, bring to a boil over medium heat, reduce heat, cover and cook after boiling for 20 minutes.
Serve the quinoa porridge sprinkled with cinnamon, honey, and garnish with chopped fruit.
Quinoa porridge in a slow cooker
Pour the washed quinoa into a multicooker, add milk and cook for 20 minutes on the Milk Porridge mode.
Facts about quinoa
What quinoa tastes like
Cooked groats have a grainy texture and a soft nut flavor with herbaceous notes. Groats are quite expensive (for June 2019 – from 600 rubles / kilogram, sold in sachets of 300-400 grams), but its taste is quite specific, just to occasionally diversify classic Russian cereals.
In the photo, raw quinoa is visually compared to buckwheat:
– Quinoa is great to serve as a side dish with cheese, butter and herbs, and if you use a fragrant broth during cooking, then quinoa will become a full-fledged dish. Quinoa porridge with sugar and jam is also good.
– Before cooking quinoa, you can ignite 2-3 minutes in a skillet – then after cooking it will be more crumbly.
– Quinoa is very good for health: Contains fiber (digestive health), carbohydrates (body energy balance), riboflavin (metabolism, youthfulness and skin health).
– Calorie value quinoa – 370 kcal / 100 grams. Quinoa is considered a high-calorie food.
Pilaf from quinoa
Products
Quinoa – two glasses
Chicken legs – 8 pieces
Onions – 2 heads
Carrots – 3 medium carrots
Tomatoes – 5 medium
Hot pepper – 1 piece
Garlic – 1 piece
Vegetable oil – 3 tablespoons
Zira – half a teaspoon
Coriander – half a teaspoon
Cilantro to taste
Black pepper and salt to taste
Quinoa pilaf recipe
1. Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
2. Peel and chop the carrots.
3. Remove the skin from the chicken legs and cut the meat.
4. Preheat a saucepan, add oil, put chicken bones with cartilage, fry for 10 minutes, then remove bones.
5. Add carrots to a saucepan, add spices, chopped peppers, and fry for 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
6. Add onion, fry for another 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. Add pieces of meat, fry for 10 minutes.
8. Wash and dice the tomatoes and add to the saucepan.
9. Season with salt, put garlic on top.
10. Add quinoa, add one and a half liters of boiling water and mix well.
11. Serve the quinoa pilaf, sprinkled with cilantro.