Quinoa Bake
OK – my recipe (algorithm?) for Quinoa Bake
To serve 4:
1 pint lightly salted boiling water
1/2 pint quinoa, rinsed
1 onion – chopped
1 large clove garlic – crushed
Interesting-looking tasty stuff from the fridge (last night that meant 4 rather dried up old mushrooms, 3 sticks of limp celery and 3 small piquant peppers from a jar that has been lurking at the back for I don’t know how long) – chopped into v small pieces
A large pile of grated cheddar cheese (and a little parmesan – just because)
Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F). Cook the quinoa (put in the boiling water, cook for about 10 min, then remove from heat, cover and leave to absorb the rest of the water). Fry the onion, garlic and other tasty stuff. Take off the heat. Add the cooked quinoa and stir in the grated cheddar. Put in oven-proof dish, top with grated parmesan (or just more cheddar), bake for about 30 min.
As you can tell from the instructions above, this can have many variations. It’s good served with a tomato sauce – last night however that simply meant ketchup.
two comments:
Ooooh thanks will have to give that a whirl sometime when I’m cooking! Oh, and people on the UKHandknitters Yahoo group have been raving about Sew Creative recently – seems its getting better and better!Daisy () (link) - 10 December '05 - 12:17
Thanks for that – funnily enough we just bought some quinoa recently for the first time. Just cooked it as we would any other grain and enjoyed it, so will definitely give your recipe a go! How’s life in Cambridge?Carolyn () - 12 December '05 - 18:17
