Recipe: Delicious Curried Quinoa

Curried Quinoa.

To cook Curried Quinoa you need 9 ingredients and just 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

1. Prepare of quinoa.
2. Prepare of water, chicken or vegetable broth.
3. Prepare of curry powder.
4. It's of chili powder.
5. Prepare of salt & pepper.
6. You need of optional diced bell pepper.
7. You need of optional medium-sized sweet onion (diced).
8. You need of optional choice of meat (diced).
9. Prepare of optional clove of mined garlic.

Curried Quinoa directions

1. IMPORTANT: Rinse quinoa in water and drain well to eliminate bitterness in the quinoa. If pre-washed quinoa is used, skip this step..
2. Add quinoa, chicken broth, curry powder and chili powder into a pot and stir well. If water is used instead of broth, add a dash of salt and pepper. Bring to a boil..
3. Once it starts to boil, reduce to a simmer and cover pot. Let cook at a low heat for about 20 mins until quinoa has completely soaked up all the liquid..
4. Take the quinoa off the heat and let the steam cook it further for about 10 mins. Cooked quinoa should be translucent and fluffy..
5. OPTIONAL STEP: If you like, heat a tbsp of oil in a pan and stir-fry onions, garlic, bell pepper and meat-of-choice. Add in the cooked quinoa and stir-fry for another 5-7 mins. Great option to fried rice. ;).