Poblano Quinoa Side Dish Recipe
Tired of rice or potatoes as your side dish? Looking for something less carby and more proteiny? This quinoa dish is really excellent on all of those fronts. It is also delicious! The trick with quinoa is you must remember to wash it before you cook it. Quinoa naturally has a chemical coating on the outside called saponin to discourage grazers, and most quinoa that you can buy from the store has not been washed enough. The way you can tell you've rinsed all of the saponin off is that the water will stop sudsing up when you rinse it. Ours took four times before the water stopped foaming up.
This is a very basic flavour profile, and you can adjust this based on what you add. You could pop a bay leaf in while it's boiling, or even some cardamom pods to adjust the flavour and aroma profile. We added the peppers after we turned off the heat, and let it sort of steam in with the hot quinoa, and it was just nicely cooked by the time we went to eat it.
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