Quick Quinoa
Q for my A-Z alphabet challenge was always going to be quinoa! (pronounced keen-wah). Quinoa is a grain which contains high amounts of protein and is actually one of the few plants foods which is classed as a complete protein! Yes meat eaters! See… there are plant foods which are complete proteins too! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Quinoa also contains fibre, a range of minerals including iron and it is gluten free 🙂 What’s not to like! 🙂 Lets get creating!
Gather
- 100g quinoa (I used white and a sprinkling of black)
- 350ml boiling water
- coconut oil
- 1 medium onion (100g) sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon coconut sugar
- 1 teaspoon tandoori spice (substitute any mixed curry whole spice)
- 1 teaspoon garlic
- 1 x 400g chick peas (garbanzo / gram) drained and rinsed
- 6-8 sugar snap peas cut into bite size pieces (or fresh green beans / mange tout)
- 3-4 cherry tomatoes halved
- salt (I used pink Himalayan)
Prepare
- Put the quinoa in a pan and lightly dry toast for a couple of minutes. Carefully add the boiling water, stir, reduce heat and cook for 15-20 minutes.
- Melt the coconut oil, add the onion and sprinkle the sugar over. Allow to cook for 3-4 minutes before adding the spice and garlic. Cook until the onions are translucent and just starting to brown.
These onions are just about ready to add the chickpeas… - Stir in the chick peas coating them with the spices.
- Add the sugar-snap peas and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Chick peas and sugar snap peas cooking - Add the tomatoes and warm through.
Tomatoes add another burst of colour and just need warming through so they still have some shape. - Add the cooked quinoa to the chick peas and season to taste with salt.
- Enjoy!
Serve & Store
- Delicious as a meal in its own right! or add a salad.
- Refrigerate when cold and consume within 3 days.
- Try mixing the quinoa – red, white, black
- Use this recipe for a quick and tasty chickpea recipe (without the quinoa)
- Dress it up for an impressive dinner!
- Use for packed lunch – yum!
Love chickpeas! Thats looking great!
Roxanne,
thelemonandjar.com
Thank you very much Roxanne and welcome to Life Diet Health 🙂 Chickpeas are one of my favourite things… I think that’s chickpea recipe post number seven so far! 😛
Very nice! I’m just starting out myself! 🙂 good luck!
Hello Roxanne, thank you and welcome to Life Diet Health ☺ I’ll pop over to your blog and have a look 🙂
Adorable presentation and yummy sounding recipe! 🙂 Love the pop of color tomatoes give. Just wondering, what are the decoration dots on the plate? 🙂
I tell you Milica… it didn’t start off looking like that! 😛 Thank you! The dots ah well! They were going to be balsamic vinegar but I couldn’t find my dropper so I cheated and used date syrup! That will be a new recipe in the making- I accidentally ate some with the quinoa and it was so good!!! 🙂
Date syrup with quinoa? Sounds yumm-y! 🙂 And some of your caramelized onions, salty… And, and… darn, I’m hungry again! 😛
Milica it was accidental but so good! Seriously need to have a play with that!
Please share if you end up with something good! 😉 Which I don’t doubt you will 🙂
Thank you! Maybe a kitchen day tomorrow 🙂 x
I discovered quinoa recently, but when I’ve tried to it at home, it’s been a tad bland. This combination of simple flavours is great and the chickpeas will make it very filling. A nice healthy tea.
Thank you! A nice healthy tea indeed! Let me know how yours turns out if you make it 🙂 Quinoa is wonderful if you treat it right! 🙂 Some people wash it first to get rid of the bitter saponins but I prefer to lightly dry toast it. I’m not too keen on the black quinoa on its own though but the red and the white are delicious.