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Originally posted by Patriot:
Like eating dirt...

BLEH!

You may be right. I don’t eat dirt, so I wouldn’t know.

My wife makes a great quinoa kale salad. It has onions, feta and pomegranate seeds, tossed in honey mustard dressing. Very tasty. I was very skeptical at first, but it’s actually good. I do deliberately mispronounce it kweeno, just to aggravate her. It never gets old.

I like it with bacon.

Well duh. I could eat dirt with bacon.

I find Kasha has more flavor

I am neutral on the taste of the stuff. It is fine, but I wouldn't seek it out.

By itself it tastes like I imagine lawn clippings would.
Somehow the stuff in the high end frozen entrees is mighty good. Check out Power Bowls, Healthy Choice, etc.

Would love to learn how to make the same dishes with my instant pot, but as yet I've not seen recipes that I think would do it.

Not long ago, there was a thread about Vienna sausages here in the Lounge. It prompted me to reacquaint myself with those little sausages – I liked ’em. (Libby’s)

And a few weeks ago it occurred to me that Quinoa + Vienna sausages would be a tasty combo. And it is!

I steam my Quinoa. It comes out fluffy and tender with no free water. I slice the sausages to 1/4” lengths, then put the slices, the broth, and black pepper into the Quinoa and mix all together. Flat out good!

I like it substituted for all or part of the cracked wheat in tabbouli. Turns the tabbouli into a pretty complete summer easy “take with” refrigerated lunch with some feta crumbled into the salad. By the time it is marinated with all the other ingredients/veggies it is pretty much indistinguishable.

FYI, It's not low-carb. It has more than brown rice & almost as much as white rice.

From WebMD:
Quinoa and Carbs
It’s not a low-carb food. A cup of cooked quinoa has more than 39 grams of carbohydrates. That’s 50% more than in the same amount of brown rice and almost as many carbs as in white rice.

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Minute Rice has a product called Rice and Quinoa:

https://minuterice.com/products/rice-quinoa-instant/

Minute rice....isn't rice

I would double check your carb numbers. Most sites show quinoa slightly lower in carbs than brown rice and way lower than white.

Overall it’s hard to argue quinoa isn’t a healthier choice than either brown or white rice.

I never eat quinoa by itself. Of course I also don’t really eat rice by itself either. As for couscous it seems silly to compare pasta to grains. Of course pasta tastes better. So do Snickers bars. The way my wife seasons quinoa I think it tastes very good. Nothing like grass clippings. Kale tastes like grass clippings. No way to make it taste good unless you “hide” it in food.

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I often use quinoa as a base in my 'lunch bowl' with fresh sliced red bell pepper, any number of other ingredients from mostly salad stuff to proteins.

I've come to prefer it in place of rice much of the time.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
.hsph.harvard.edu

i avoid anything harv ard says

Pigweed seeds, NTTATWWT.

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Originally posted by f2:

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
.hsph.harvard.edu

i avoid anything harv ard says

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What’s your point? I cited the Harvard.edu article only to provide some support for my statement that quinoa has all nine of the essential amino acids.

If you are disputing that statement, then you are wrong.

If you’re not disputing it then your post is non-relevant thread clutter.

This looks pretty good: (4 minute video)
Quinoa fried “rice”

https://youtu.be/MMLR51t7yqw

My wife found that its better if you toast it slightly in a dry pan before adding water and cooking it.

Then add salt, butter, garlic etc to improve the flavor.