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Quinoa with herbs and nuts

This recipe was taken from a packet of Granovita quinoa. This quinoa recipe demonstrates one of the 4 cooking methods for quinoa very well because you do not need to pre-cook the quinoa.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups granovita organic fairtrade quinoa
1 cup cashew nuts
2 courgettes
bunch of spring onions
thyme
parsley
olive oil
sea salt
Method
Wash the onions and chop the green part [...]

Quinoa Pilaf Recipe

This simple quinoa pilaf recipe is taken from a Granovita packet. You can adapt it by changing the fruit or juice flavour. You can also blend chopped fresh fruit with it just before serving and put a dollop of cream on top.
Serves 8 -10
Preparation and cooking time - 30 minutes
1 cup quinoa
3 cups orange juice
1/2 [...]

Quinoa Tabouleh

This recipe is taken from a packet of quinoa from Infinity Foods.
This is really a type of quinoa salad and is a good method of preparing the quinoa dish ahead of the serving time and keeping it in the fridge.
Quinoa Tabouleh
Ingredients

250g cooked and cooled quinoa as per quinoa cooking instructions here
3 chopped tomatoes
4 chopped [...]

Banana and Kiwi Crunch - Quinoa Dessert recipe

This recipe is an adaptation of one from the Complete Guide to Cooking Quinoa.
It makes a great dessert. I think Quinoa and walnuts were made for each other.
This is not a very healthy quinoa recipe but it is very tasty quinoa recipe
Ingredients

1/4 cup margarine
1 cup homemade breadcrumbs
1/2 cup cooked and prepared quinoa
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 [...]

Red Quinoa & Fruit Salad

Serves 1 - Preparation & Cooking time - 30 minutes

110g Red Quinoa,
300ml Water,
25g Raisins,
25g Pine nuts,
25g Pineapple (Fresh or tinned),
1 tbsp chopped mint leaves,
1 spring onion,
1 tbsp olive oil,
pinch of salt & pepper

Rinse Quinoa well before cooking,Add quinoa to 300ml of boiling water, return to boil and then reduce heat and simmer for approximately 10 [...]