Quinoa Yuk!

[snohare]

I don't grow any, I am corny enough !
(And I can't digest it. But others at the allotment in Aberdeen manage as long as they take enough care watering it etc.)
No chance where I am now anyways, too high and too short a growing season. Maybe in thirty years time...

[Flummery]

I've never grown it but have eaten (small quantity of!) the shop bought stuff. It's another of those 'Lost Crop of the Incas' things. No wonder they lost it. I bet they kept chucking it off cliffs and leaving it on buses. I found it very cardboardy. Rice has a delicate flavour. Spuds are beautiful. Quinoa is nasty.

[snohare]

No wonder they lost it. I bet they kept chucking it off cliffs and leaving it on buses.

PMSL
Must confess, I wouldn't eat it for the taste, although sometimes even my thick-as-two-short-planks taste buds detect something nutty about it...

[Beanie]

Many moons ago OH and I did a vegan Detox diet - we only lasted about 3 weeks as it was too 'alien' to our decidedly omnivorous tastes, but this Quinoa recipe was really rather nice. The Cinnamon gives it a bit of a flavour uplift.
I left out the cardamom pods & courguettes as OH can't stand them.

2 tbsp water
1 chopped onion
1 stick cinnamon
4 cardamom pods
2 crushed cloves of garlic
1 chopped red pepper
2 courguettes, sliced
8oz/225g quinoa
1 pint veg stock
9oz/250g cooked chick peas (oe a 400g can, drained & rinsed)
2oz/60g toasted flaked almonds
2oz /60g pumpkin seeds

Heat the water in a large saucepan & saute the onion with the cinnamon stick & cardamom pods for 2 mins.
Add the garlic, peppers & courguettes & cook for a further 2 mins.
Add the quinoa, veg stock, & cooked chickpeas. Stir & bring to the boil. Reduce heat & simmer 20 mins until the liquid has been absorbed & the quinoa is cooked.

Pile mix onto plates, scatter over almonds & pumpkin seeds & sprinkle with chopped coriander or parsley.