Curd Quinoa – Wholesome & Comforting Vegetarian Recipe – Cooking with Thas – Healthful Selfmade Recipes

My favourite dish with quinoa…

Curd quinoa is a wholesome & nutritious dish made by mixing cooked quinoa with curd (yogurt) and seasoned with a tempering or Tadka. Just like curd rice, a preferred South Indian dish loved by everybody I made curd quinoa, cooked rice changed with quinoa.

Quinoa itself is a pseudo-cereal grain that’s extremely nutritious and filled with protein, fiber, nutritional vitamins, and minerals. When mixed with curd, it creates a tasty and healthful meal that’s not solely scrumptious but additionally supplies a number of well being advantages.

Incorporating curd quinoa into your eating regimen could be a scrumptious method to take pleasure in the advantages of each quinoa and yogurt whereas including selection to your meals.

Curd Quinoa – Wholesome & Comforting Vegetarian Recipe

 

Complete time

1 hour 25 minutes

 

Writer: Thasneen

Recipe kind: Important

Delicacies: Indian

• Quinoa- 1 cup
• Water- 2 cups
• Salt- ½ tsp
• Curd or yogurt- 2 cups

• Coconut oil- 1½ tbsp
• Mustard seeds- 1 tsp
• Chana dal- 1 tsp
• Urad dal- ½ tsp
• Dried res chilies- 3
• Curry leaves- 8 leaves

1. I’ve taken 1 cup white quinoa, quinoa is available in varied colours together with black, purple, yellow & white.
2. It is strongly recommended to soak quinoa in water for not less than an hour, it will take away the phytic acid content material in it & will make it simpler for digestion & additionally removes the bitter saponin coating.
3. After soaking in water, take the quinoa in a strainer & rinse beneath working water until the water turns clear.
4. Add the soaked & rinsed quinoa to a saucepan, add water & salt.
5. Prepare dinner coated for quarter-hour over medium warmth until the quinoa has turned mushy & the water has dried off.
6. I discover quarter-hour of cooking makes the quinoa mushy & it is going to have a crunchy texture.
7. Let the cooked quinoa settle down.
8. Take 1½ cups cooked quinoa in a big bowl.
9. Take 2 cups yogurt in a bowl & utilizing a whisk beat the yogurt nicely.
10. Add the overwhelmed yogurt to the cooked quinoa, mix nicely.
11. Add ½ tsp extra salt, mix nicely & maintain it apart.
12. Let’s make the tadka or tempering, this can be a should add, will significantly improve the style & imparts a pleasant aroma to the curd quinoa.
13. Place a small frying pan over medium warmth.
14. Add coconut oil let flip scorching.
15. Add mustard seeds, let splutter.
16. Add chana dal & urad dal, fry until they flip golden in coloration; do not burn the dals.
17. Add dried purple chilies & curry leaves, saute for a number of seconds.
18. Instantly, pour the tadka over the curd quinoa.
19. I additionally add 1 tsp pure sesame oil, that is optionally available.
20. I like the style & aroma of sesame oil.
21. Whereas serving, mix the whole lot nicely & take pleasure in with pickle & pappad.
22. Completely comforting, wholesome & delish.

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