Archive for April, 2008

Can you cook quinoa with only 1 saucepan

The simple answer is yes. But you have to plan your meal to work around this cooking method for quinoa.
Method one for one pot quinoa cooking
Quinoa can be included in soups where you do not need to prepare the quinoa by pre boiling it. You simply include it with your other soup ingredients and the [...]

How to cook Quinoa in a Microwave - Video

Cooking Quinoa in a microwave is so simple I do not know why I didn’t think of it sooner.
The quinoa video will run when you press the play button.
You may need to press the button twice depending on your browser settings

The video also shows how to make a quinoa salad recipe.
As I mentioned on the [...]

How to cook Quinoa - Video

I recorded a video a few weeks ago showing the basic methods of how to cook quinoa. To view it here just click on the play button. It sometimes needs pressing twice depending on what browser settings you are using. The point of showing the quinoa cooking process is that many people have no idea [...]

How to cook quinoa - Basic Method

Step 1
Rinse the Quinoa under cold water
Step 2
Measure out 1 cup of Quinoa to 2 cups of water and place in a suacepan
Step 3
Bring the Quinoa to the boil, turn it down and simmer gently for 10 - 15 minutes. If you like it crunchy then 10 minutes is long enough. If you like your [...]

Quinoa as part of a weight loss diet

I have used Quinoa in my own weight loss diet with great success. Because Quinoa is such a complete food and is very filling you do not need to eat a lot of it to feel satisfied.
The Diet I have been on includes quinoa in the route to management phase in week three. I found [...]