Different quinoa recipes are capable of working effectively when it comes to bringing you closer towards the kind of health and weight that you have always wished for. The good thing about trying out the recipes is that you will never face any difficulty cooking them because the procedures involved in preparing healthy dishes out of quinoa are proven to be simple and fast. Below are two healthy quinoa recipes that you should consider incorporating in your quinoa diet:
Kale Salad with Quinoa, Roasted Almonds and Tangerines
The ingredients needed for this recipe include the following: cooked quinoa, washed and patted dry Lacinato, extra virgin olive oil, fresh tangerines, raw organic agave, sea salt, gluten free low sodium tamari sauce, minced garlic clove, grated fresh ginger, roasted almonds and fresh cracked pepper. Cook quinoa and then fluff it using a fork. Drizzle it with a small amount of extra virgin olive oil to improve its moisture. After that, you should start peeling the tangerines and separating their wedges. Make sure that you set aside the juice of the tangerines. Get a cup and whisk the tangerine juice, agave, tamari sauce, garlic and ginger into it. Sprinkle kale over it and toss everything well to evenly distribute the mixture. The next step is to add kale into the cooked quinoa. Toss everything well. The remaining tangerine wedges along with black pepper should then be added into the mixture. Before serving this salad, make sure that you add the roasted almonds into it and toss all ingredients in a gentle manner.
Quinoa Cloud Cookies
This recipe is composed of all purpose flour, quinoa flour, fine grain sea salt, unsalted butter, shaved chocolate, large grain sugar flakes and sifted fine grain natural cane sugar. The first thing that you should do is to mix the flours together in your skillet and set it over medium heat. Start toasting the flour mixture while stirring it constantly until it becomes fragrant and slightly golden. Once done, you should remove the skillet from heat. Get a bowl and sift the flours into it. Add some salt into the bowl and store it in your refrigerator for approximately ten minutes. The next thing that you should do is to cream the butter with the help of an electric mixer. Add sugar into it and cream the mixture again. Add the cooled flour into the mixture along with the chocolate shavings. Form balls out of the dough and flatten each of them. Store them in your refrigerator for approximately forty five minutes. Preheat your oven and start lining your baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll the chilled dough in a counter top which is lightly floured. Start cutting the dough based on your preferred shapes. Sprinkle sugar over them and place them in your baking sheet. Bake them for at least twelve minutes and allow them to cool for ten minutes. Continue cooling the cookies in your wire rack before serving.