Red Quinoa (Quinoa)
Posted by lotus42 on Sep 23, 2009 · Member since Mar 2007 · 3081 posts
I tried Red Quinoa for the first time this week. I'm pretty much loving it. Has anyone else tried it? What do you think? I've had a love affair with regular quinoa for quite sometime. This is not better or worse...just a little different. ;) I'm gonna do some research, but until I do, does anyone know if the nutritional info is different from regular quinoa?
Ok so I sent you an email with the recipe.
For some reason I like red quinoa better than the tan kind, (probably just because it is more expensive in my HFS bulk bins.....sneaky advertising ploy!) But I like and eat both often. I do think has a little more of a taste and the tan is pretty much blendable into anything but I don't mind the taste of the red. I ususally blend it in with some rice and/or red lentils when cooking then eat it mixed in with whatever, (although fruit I haven't try SirD, its sounds interesting, I'll have to do that!)
I have yet to try red quinoa, but I did notice on the bulk store label that it has less iron than white quinoa. Kind of counter-intuitive eh?
in regards to whether or not the quinoa should be washed - i took a couple of pictures - each of bulk quinoa, each bought from a different store.
Please forgive as the pics are kinda fuzzy - but that aside, one of the pics includes instructions indicating that the quinoa should be rinsed first and the other - doesn't mention anything about that. So my guess is the latter is already pre-rinsed. Thus if you're not sure, the bulk container might be a good indicator.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3432/3996091606_00639c9329.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2609/3995330947_88ef8e91d0.jpg
is it bad if I'm too lazy to wash quinoa (and anything else!)
I get it from bulk bins as it's much cheaper, but there's never any cooking instructions. Based on yours sirdidy, I'm going to assume mine is the type that doesn't need to be washed ::)
oh yeah, and what's black quinoa?
beats the sh*t out of me, i just buy the stuff :)
beats the sh*t out of me, i just buy the stuff :)
Love it ;D
i've actually never had regular quinoa. the first time i bought quinoa to use in a recipe was in a co-op and i thought the red looked nicer than the other, so i bought that and never tried regular. i like red quinoa because it pops more visually in recipes to me.
Ok so I sent you an email with the recipe.
making it tonight! : )
Shell, I made 'your' recipe last night, and it was yum, thanks so much : )
Omnis liked too, though unfortunately they covered it in a beef casserole : /
I'm glad you liked it, although it's a bit poop that it got all beefed up by the omnis ::)
I like that it is easy to make and actually nice and tasty for so few ingredients. I need to try it with red quinoa (quinoa)
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