Pork-Fried Quinoa – Oh Say Tin You Lot Seed?

Finally, subsequently entirely v or half-dozen hundred requests, we’re posting a quinoa recipe! People dearest eating this “super food” for all the obvious nutritional reasons, but based on the emails I’ve received, they’re constantly searching for novel in addition to delicious ways to purpose it.

Well, this was then tasty, then fast, in addition to then easy, I’ll live on shocked if it doesn’t arrive into the regular rotation. And don’t intend for a infinitesimal that we’ve exactly overwhelmed the quinoa alongside a bunch of high-calorie, unhealthy ingredients, because that’s non the case. Not that I’m inwards a higher house such culinary shenanigans; but it exactly wasn’t necessary.

I was truly surprised how decadent in addition to satisfying this seemed, in addition to alongside entirely a tablespoon of vegetable oil, in addition to a handful of really thin smoked ham. These tiny quinoa seeds (that’s right, immediately you lot tin give the axe audio similar a d-bag correcting your foodie friends at cocktail parties who telephone phone this a “grain”) truly are sponges for flavor. I can’t believe I’m proverb this, but I can’t hold off to experiment alongside other quinoa creations.

By the way, if you’re an experienced quinoa cooker, in addition to accept whatever keen tips, delight overstep them along. I’m non certain how this would move alongside the other varieties/colors of quinoa. I assume it would, but accept never used them. I likewise used less H2O than the directions telephone phone for, but wanted the seeds to live on a niggling “al dente,” which seemed to move good here.

Anyway, whether you’re an experienced quinoaista or a newbie similar me, I promise you lot give this delicious pork-fried quinoa a travail soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for ii large or four pocket-sized servings:

1 loving cup quinoa

salt to taste

1 1/2 cups mutual frigidness water

1 tbsp vegetable oil

1 loving cup diced smoked ham

1/2 loving cup diced peppers

1/2 loving cup sliced dark-green onions

3 cloves garlic minced

1 tbsp seasoned rice vinegar

1 or ii tbsp soy sauce, or to taste

Sriracha, or whatever hot sauce to taste

toasted sesame seeds to taste

View the consummate recipe

Bonus Quinoa Esoterica:

When my friend Tamar, from the ever entertaining weblog Starving Off the Land, heard I was doing a quinoa post, she sent me this photo. At get-go glace, this looks similar about novel diversity of grayness quinoa, but they're truly tiny oysters! Tamar farms oysters on Cape Cod, in addition to you're looking at roughly 50,000 babe bivalves. Simply amazing. Thanks, Tamar!

 

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