Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, quinoa & pumpkin salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Quinoa is a flowering plant in the amaranth family. It is a herbaceous annual plant grown as a crop primarily for its edible seeds; the seeds are rich in protein, dietary fiber, B vitamins. Quinoa is an ancient South American grain that was largely ignored for centuries.
Quinoa & pumpkin salad is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Quinoa & pumpkin salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have quinoa & pumpkin salad using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa & pumpkin salad:
- Get 60 g quinoa
- Make ready 180 ml Hot water
- Make ready 1 stock cube
- Make ready Pepper & salt
- Make ready Pumpkin
- Prepare Cucumber
- Prepare Cherry tomatoes
- Get Black olives
- Make ready Vegetable quantities are pretty much up to you!
- Take Sunflower seeds
- Prepare Olive oil / salad dressing
Quinoa is a whole grain that is rapidly growing in popularity due to its many health benefits. Although people can cook and eat quinoa seeds in a similar way In this article, we explain the evidence-based health benefits of quinoa. We also look at the nutritional content of quinoa and how to add it to the diet. Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah or ke-NO-ah) is packed with protein, fiber and various vitamins and minerals.
Instructions to make Quinoa & pumpkin salad:
- Dissolve stock cube into hot water & pour into a small pan
- Add Quinoa and bring to boil then reduce heat and let simmer for 10/15 mins
- Add salt and pepper during simmering
- Cut pumpkin into small chunks and cook in a pan with a bit of fat
- When cool, mix Quinoa and pumpkin with the rest of the vegetables.
- Sprinkle sunflower seeds and add dressing/ Olive oil to finish off
It is also gluten-free and is recommended for people Often used as a substitute for rice, quinoa is commonly considered to be a grain and is usually referred to as such, but it is actually a seed. Quinoa (pronounced as kinwah; quinua in Spanish) is an incredibly nutritious "grain-like seed" obtained from the goosefoot family plant native to the highland plains of South-American Andes region. Ancient Incas believed quinua as "the mother grain. Chenopodium quinoa (and a related species Quinoa is highly variable due to a high complexity of different subspecies, varieties and landraces. However, in general it is undemanding and altitude-hardy.
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