Quinoa Breakfast Recipes Making tips

The most common method of preparing quinoa is boiling it with water and simmering till the grain turns light and fluffy. However, it is very versatile and you can add your favorite ingredients to make yummy vegan quinoa breakfast. Before actually cooking, you need to remove saponins by soaking grains in water for a few hours. After that, rinse soaked quinoa grains several times under running water. You can skip this preparatory step of soaking and rinsing grains, if you purchase box quinoa that is a bit costlier. Following are some healthy quinoa breakfast recipes, which you can try out.

Quinoa Cereal Ingredients

• 1 cup quinoa (washed and rinsed)
• ½ cup apple (thinly sliced)
• 1 cup seedless raisin
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup honey
• 2 cups water
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon

Directions for Preparation :  Prepare quinoa by soaking and rinsing for 2 - 3 times. Add it in a saucepan and add water. Cook it at high heat and bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover lid and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in apples, seedless raisins and cinnamon. Simmer for another 10 minutes or until water is absorbed completely. Serve this quinoa breakfast with milk and honey.
Quinoa Salad

Ingredients

• 1 cup quinoa
• 1 carrot peeled (make stripes)
• 1 ounce read cabbage (chopped)
• 0.7 ounce red pepper (chopped)
• garlic sprouts
• 3 lettuce leaves (chopped)
• 2 cups vegetable broth
• Olive oil

Directions for Preparation
In a saucepan, boil broth at a high heat and add quinoa. Stir well and reduce heat to medium low. Cook for 20 minutes and keep aside while keeping it covered. Take a mixing bowl and combine together carrot stripes, cabbage, pepper and lettuce. To this, stir and add cooked quinoa. Then, add garlic sprouts and olive oil. Toss well and serve quinoa salad in plates.