I made my first Quinoa dish last night – Quinoa is a new grain (well, technically its not a grain, but it looks and tastes like one) for me, I hadn’t even heard of it prior to looking through Heidi Swanson’s book, Super Natural Cooking. Quinoa is a super food, high in protein and amino acids, and all kinds of other good stuff.
It’s a fast cooking, hard to screw up grain – two things I really like in an ingredient. I found a recipe for Lemony Quinoa on allrecipes.com and after a few slight modifications, ended up with a delicious dish that I ate as my main course and my kids and husband ate alongside their chicken tenders. (well, that might be overstating a bit – one kid tasted it, said it was OK, the other kid wouldn’t allow it on her plate). Check it out: Citrus Quinoa
Oh, and its pronounced KEEN-wah. I mention that only because I’ve been calling it KEE-no-wa until just now.
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