Rice Quinoa

Just a medley of grains. Looking for ways to include the protein packed Quinoa into everyday diet? Try this. Mix Quinoa and Rice in 1:2 ratio. The Rice to Water ratio be 1:2 and Quinoa to Water ratio be 1:1. Mix the Rice, Quinoa and Water, then pressure cook the medley of grains for a nice 1 or 2 whistles (just like you do the Rice).
This is an easy sneaky way to get those taste buds get accustomed to the new taste of Quinoa. Rice tastes better for us this way. Especially for kids, this is very filling and not too much of a jump from one taste to another in the pretext of healthy eating.
1 Measure White Rice
1 Measure Quinoa
3 Measures Water

1 to 2 Whistles in Pressure Cooker

The cooked rice has nice crisp bites of Quinoa to it, enhancing the taste. It is very nutritious too, now you can have white rice with less guilt. Slowly you can increase the quinoa ratio once you get used to the taste. Let us crawl before we run, shall we? ;-)
Treat this as any white rice and serve with curries. You may even make pulavs, flavored rice etc using the same rice Quinoa base. Now that's an idea to self...Will do some in near future. :-)

4 comments:

  1. quinoa- looks like samai. Sells for Rs.75 a kg.

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  2. Anonymous is wrong. That thanks should be cancelled.

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  3. Cancelled. :) So what is it then?

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