Quinoa with Soya chunks and Veggies

Quinoa has excellent source of protein and fibre. I have been using it for a while now and tried different recipes with that. I used the Organic tricolour/white quinoa from Trader Joe’s.

Compared to the Indian sooji/broken wheat, I personally found Quinoa to be delicious. Buying this grain in India is expensive.

The benefits of quinoa are available in the following link Quinoa benefits.

Ingredients: (4 servings)

Quinoa – 1 cup

Vegetables of your choice (carrots/ beans/corn/ baby corn/potato/zucchini/peas/red or yellow capsicum,etc) – finely chopped – 3/4 cup

Onion(big) – 1

Tomato medium sized – 2 or pasta sauce – 2 to 3 tbs,

Soya chunks(small) boiled and drained – handful

Olive oil – 1 tbs

Green Chilli slit- 1

Mustard – 1tsp

Urad dhal – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds- 1 tsp

Asafoetida – a pinch

Curry leaves – 4-5

Salt to taste

Method:

I used a small pressure pan to cook this easy recipe.

1. Heat oil in the pan and add mustard seeds.
2. When the mustard seeds start crackling, add cumin seeds along with urad dhal and sauté them lightly.
3. Add the green chilli, curry leaves, asafoetida and fry for few seconds.
4. sauté onions till they turn translucent.
5. Add the pasta sauce or chopped tomato and fry for a minute till they soften. (I used pasta sauce)
6. To the above mixture add the veggies and fry for another minute.
7. Pour 2 and a half cups of water to the mixture and add salt as required.
8. When the mixture starts to boil, add the soya chunks along with quinoa and pressure cook for 2 to 3 whistles.
9. Garnish with coriander if desired.
10. Serve with pickle.

Served with fried Cashew and Kara Boondi for the kids: