Recipe: Delicious Spiced Quinoa in Tomato Sauce

Spiced Quinoa in Tomato Sauce.

To make Spiced Quinoa in Tomato Sauce you need 13 ingredients and just 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients

1. You need 1 of cinnamon stick.
2. It's 1 of star anise.
3. You need 1 pinch of ground black pepper.
4. You need 2 of cardamom pods.
5. It's 1 of bay leaf.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of sumach.
7. Prepare 500 grams of tomato juice.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
9. It's 1 cup of water.
10. It's 300 grams of frozen peas.
11. It's 150 grams of quinoa.
12. You need 1 of salt and chili flakes.
13. It's 1 tsp of ground turmeric.

Spiced Quinoa in Tomato Sauce step by step

1. Heat some oil in a pot over medium high heat. Add the cinnamon, star anise, black pepper, crushed cardamom pods, bay leaf and sumach. Stir for about a minute.
2. Then, add tomato juice, sugar and water. Bring mixture to a boil and add thawed peas and rinsed quinoa.
3. Cook for around 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, adding more water if needed. When quinoa is cooked, add salt, chili flakes and turmeric. At this point, the dish will look like a stew, so turn off the heat and cover with a lid for 15 minutes. Enjoy :).