Tastes like rice... (Mediterranean series part 2)

For those of you who aren't familiar with Whole Foods, they stock this particularly delicious form of starch called Cilantro Lime Quinoa. It is delicious. Oddly enough, we could never find a recipe online for it, though Whole Foods is usually pretty persistent about lending out their delicious, delicious recipes.

So we made our own. Damnit.

It actually turned out really well, for not knowing what the hell we were doing.

Cilantro Lime Quinoa

This makes use of the principle of TAKE A STARCH and THROW THINGS IN IT. So relatively basic, and very nom.

Ingredients:

1 cup uncooked quinoa
1 bell pepper, chopped (not green)(gross)
4 green onions, chopped
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
2 Tbsp sliced almonds (optional)
4 Tbsp lime juice

By the way, if you need this to be even lower in fat content, which you don't, because this is pretty awesome already, and whatever, you can use cous cous. Cous cous has 0 grams of fat and blah blah.

Cook the quinoa according to the package; it should give you about 3 cups of cooked delicious starchiness. You need to a) rinse it before using it, and b) add about 2 tablespoons of your lime juice to the cooking quinoa suspension. Gives it kick.

Once it comes out, shove it in the refrigerator for a little while to cool down. Once chilled somewhat (30 minutes is not bad at all), remove and throw everything else in there, mixing thoroughly. And then eat it. Straight up delicious.



We suspect it'll be even better after a day sitting in the refrigerator, when the almonds have softened and the lime is more pervasive. Though it's not bad soon off the stove. And low in fat!

Lovely for your figure.

Next on the list of corruptions:
Falafel
Lasagna
Black Bean Burgers
Tiramisu
Pizza