Quinoa days - gluten-free and good for calcium intake! - Wednesday, 17th Septemnber 2014

dry-fried Quinoa on pasta and saute veg + my garden sweet tomatoes

Dry-fried quinoa, cooked for five minutes in a small saute pan over a medium heat.  Cool down and store in a small jar or plastic box - then enjoy on your breakfast bowl, on lunch in a salad etc. and I'm going to try sprinkling it on biscuit mixture or similar!

I've done my homework, online, and I'd cooked quinoa years ago, when it became a very soggy mass of  stuff at the bottom of my saucepan.  Now, armed with the latest info on quinoa which, in the meantime, has become rather more prominent in the latest food news, and online, plus it's fairly more readily available in our supermarkets.  Online newspaper article, out of The Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2014, talks about quinoa in its "A-Z of unusual ingredients: quinoa" and it was from this article I came across the idea to roast quinoa for 20 minutes in the oven, to make it agreeable for adding to breakfast cereals!

Well, I decided oven cooking was too expensive for one item by itself and came up with the idea of my dry-fry cook.  It works brilliantly, takes just five minutes to "toasty" cook and smells rather good as it's cooking.

According to the article "Quinoa is the new superhero of the grain world".  "Handled  badly, paparticularly overcooked, it can be quite unappealing.  But keep the grain firm and slightly nutty, add your favourite spices and accompaniments, and you will start to understand what the fuss is about".
"Food writer Chrissy Freer, who has just released a book called Supergrains: Cook Your Way to Great Health, is a big fan.  "Out of all the grains quinoa really stands out," she says."

All of this info. from The Daily Telegraph online article as above.

Well, I've been eating quinoa for over a week now in my eight-layer breakfast bowl and on green salady things and meaty-veggie  mixes and it certainly does add a very good crunch to  my daily good eats.

My 8-layer breakfast bowl - banana, lactose free milk, oats, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, golden linseeds and dry-fry quinoa

I can't wait to add quinoa to my next biscuit  mixture!

Daisy