Heather’s Quinoa – 101 Cookbooks

This quinoa recipe is an odd fowl of types, but it surely was so nicely acquired that I assumed I would share it with you. Heather, my sister was on her method over for lunch. Eager to keep away from a visit to the shop, I dedicated myself to throwing lunch collectively utilizing no matter I had readily available. 

Now, I hardly ever mix tofu with Italian-style sauces, however this (and some different questionable culinary strikes) got here into play as I reached for substances from each fridge and freezer. Working towards a nutritious, considerably balanced, in-the-realm-of-healthy predominant course this is the place I ended up. In a sentence – a skillet of quinoa, corn, chopped lacinato kale and pan-toasted tofu tossed with an enormous dollop of pesto and completed off with a couple of roasted cherry tomatoes.

I’ve cooked this many instances within the years since, and it is an ideal late-summer recipe that comes collectively shortly, particularly should you preserve a couple of of the elements readily available. For instance, I wish to preserve huge jars of roasted tomatoes on the prepared. Toasted pepitas are sometimes in a bowl on the counter. And in some unspecified time in the future throughout any given week there may be leftover quinoa.

Heather’s Quinoa: Variations

There are infinite methods to change this up. If I’ve paneer cheese readily available, I wish to swap that in for the tofu. You brown the paneer in a skillet, the identical method you’d tofu, and it will get good and sizzly. So good.

And when you can definitely swap in a variety of grains right here – rice, millet, and so forth. – I adore it with quinoa. You see it pictured right here with tri-color quinoa, however I usually make it with the white selection. Th recipe calls for 3 cups of cooked quinoa, should you’re unsure how one can make it, this is a web page with my most well-liked methodology of how one can cook dinner quinoa.

Pepitas are my go to for crunch. Seconds alternative is toasted cashews (chopped  only a bit).

If you wish to make this much more substantial, you may add in a pair exhausting boiled eggs, sliced into quarters, across the perimeter. 

I hope you get pleasure from this one as a lot as we did. The primary time I made this was in 2008, and we nonetheless make it recurrently. Particularly when it’s peak pesto season and cherry tomatoes are considerable. 

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