How to Cook Quinoa, Inca Superfood
If you have not tried quinoa, is guilty of you and your family to cook and serve a couple of nights.
This cereal is consumed as food for thousands of years by the Incas in South America, who worshiped him as a saint. And no wonder. This is one of the most nutritious foods in the upper world, essential amino acids than wheat. Unlike wheat, quinoa is gluten free.
Although some residents of the Andean region, where they also eat leaves, mostpeople eat the seeds of quinoa or bean form. Fortunately, it is easy to prepare and cook in this way.
Quinoa is the emergence of supermarket shelves in the U.S., Canada and Europe, but depending on where you live, you may need to be found in specialty or organic grocery. Try to find a package containing seeds, which have their outer coating of wax removed by washing or some other process.
If you buy coated quinoa yet, youvigorously rinse in a strainer, then soak for several hours in the water, then rinse again. If you leave behind the Shell, which is full of bitter substance called saponin, quinoa is distasteful.
Fortunately, most quinoa sold in the market are sold in North America and Europe has been pre-processed to remove the coating.
The easiest way to prepare quinoa is to cook as you would rice. Simply place a cup of seeds coated in a panand pour two cups of water on it. You begin to boil, cover and reduce heat to boiling. Let it boil for about 15 minutes, then remove from heat.
Its cooked quinoa should be light and fluffy, cooked rice and in fact can be used in almost any dish where you can use normal rice. Add your favorite vegetables, meat and seasonings and enjoy. Noon my Louisiana heritage shows here, but I must say that my favorite form of quinoa isJambalaya with shrimp and sausage.
If you want to try baking with it, find ways quinoa flour at the store. You probably have to combine with something else, such as flour or starch, sorghum, tapioca, to get a good mixture of bicarbonate. Some cooks recommend to mix with 2 parts flour, quinoa, 2 parts sorghum flour, tapioca starch and 1 part.
He is a victim of allergy to gluten in your life? Try to do something special is based on use quinoa mixture and see how easy it isBaked joy back to the table.