How to Cook Quinoa

Uncooked Quinoa.  Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

With its high protein content, and light, fluffy texture quinoa is currently enjoying its well earned status as a superfood.  Quinoa can be used as a substitute to rice, pasta or to add some substance to vegetable dishes.

Cooking quinoa is as simple as cooking rice.  Literally.  I actually cook my quinoa in a rice cooker.  For those who don't have a rice cooker you basically use twice as much liquid (water) as you do dry quinoa which will yield roughly three times the amount of quinoa you started with once it's cooked.  

For example, if you use one cup of dry quinoa, you use two cups of water to cook it, and you'll end up with three cups of cooked quinoa.

It's that simple.

One cup will cook in about 20 minutes, simply boil the water then let it simmer the same way you would rice.