Quinoa fried rice

Quinoa fried rice - Quinoa in fried rice style. This is an easy method in Indian style where we use no sauces in it. Just use your favorite fried rice recipe and swap rice with quinoa.

Quinoa (Pronounce: KEEN-wah) cooked in fried rice style. You will also learn How to cook quinoa in Indian pressure cooker and this easy recipe to start with.

I have been seeing quinoa for few years, but never thought to buy and cook. Two months back, my friend Sangeeta asked me to try some quinoa recipes and I too thought I should try.

So bought a pack of organic Quinoa and kept for trying something out of it. Now almost it's been a month since I bought it. Finally I cooked it today!

My notes

In spite of the fact I am tasting for the very first time, I really liked it. Sure gonna try many more Indian (south Indian) dishes with this.

So as a first step I thought of posting a simple fried rice style quinoa recipe that is easy to prepare.

It’s not at all any complicated to cook quinoa, just like rice, have to wash it and cook with water in the ratio of 1: 2. That is 1 part quinoa means, 2 parts of water.

Simple, but when I wanted to cook, I was blank how to cook it in our cooker. So I am sure this will help who ever trying out to cook quinoa for the first time like me.

Since I am going to try more dishes out of it, will post when I try different method of cooking – like direct pressure cooker without keeping in a container and electric rice cooker.

This is very healthy as it’s rich in protein and many other nutrients. Diabetic friendly!

How to make it

Firstly, I cook quinoa and cooled to refrigerate it. After that, chopped the vegetables and started tossing.

After briefly tossing the vegetables in oil, lastly added cooked quinoa and tossed in high flame.

You will love it even more than regular fried rice!

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• Quinoa upma recipe
• Healthy Quinoa black bean salad recipe
• Oven roasted baby potatoes recipe
• Spicy mixture recipe
• Schezwan fried rice recipe

I have made it so simple without any sauces or anything, like my indian style fried rice. You can follow your the same with your favorite fried rice recipe, just replace rice with cooked quinoa.

Check out my oats recipes and millet recipes too!

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Quinoa fried rice

Quinoa fried rice - Quinoa in fried rice style. This is an easy method in Indian style where we use no sauces in it. Healthier option to regular fried rice.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Global

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Servings 2 People

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Cup measurements

Ingredients

• ½ cup Quinoa
• ¾ cup Mixed vegetables Frozen peas, carrot & beans chopped
• ¼ cup Capsicum chopped
• 1 teaspoon Black pepper crushed (½ teaspoon if using fine powder)
• ¼ teaspoon Sugar
• Salt
• 3 tablespoon Olive oil Or peanut/ sesame/ sunflower oil

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Instructions

How to cook quinoa

• Wash quinoa firstly well in water. Drain water using a metal strainer.
• After that, add little salt and 1 cup water.
• Pressure cook for 4 whistles in medium flame.
• Once done, fluff it well. Add a teaspoon of olive oil or sesame oil and cool down by spreading over a plate/ tray.
• Put the tray of quinoa in refrigerator until you prepare the veggies.

Prepare fried rice

• Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan. Add the vegetables and toss in high flame.
• Sprinkle salt and sugar. Toss for about 1 & ½ minutes.
• After that, add capsicum and toss well for another ½ minute.
• Then, add black pepper and cooked quinoa. Toss gently.
• Lastly, add one more tablespoon of olive oil to give it a glaze and give it a mix in high flame.
• Quinoa fried rice ready!

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Notes

• Cook quinoa in medium flame. Do not let the whistle come too fast.
• Keeping the cooked quinoa in fridge helps to keep the grains separate.
• ½ cup quinoa gives 2 cups after being cooked.

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How to cook quinoa

1. Wash quinoa firstly well in water. Drain using strainer and add little salt and 1 cup water.

2. Pressure cook (pot in pot method) for 4 whistles  in medium flame. Once done, fluff it well. Add a teaspoon of olive oil or sesame oil and cool down by spreading over a tray. Put the tray of quinoa in refrigerator until you prepare the veggies.

Prepare fried rice

3. Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan. Add the vegetables and toss in high flame. Sprinkle salt and sugar. Toss for about 1 & ½ minutes.

4. Add capsicum and toss well for another ½ minute.

5. After that, add black pepper and cooked quinoa. Toss gently.

6. Then add one more tablespoon of olive oil to give it a glaze and give it a mix in high flame.

Serve hot with simply tomato chilli sauce, tastes great!