The Quinoa Cookbook: Nutrition Facts, Cooking Tips, and 116 Superfood Recipes for a Healthy Diet (edition 2012)

by John Chatham

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Cooking & Food. Nonfiction. HTML: You've read about quinoa's myriad health benefits, noticed its migration on to menus, even learned how to correctly pronounce its name, and now the important part: How do you incorporate quinoa into your kitchen? There's little wonder why quinoa�??a gluten-free, superfood rich in protein and antioxidants�??has transformed from obscure ancient seed into modern culinary staple. While quinoa has become well known, what is lesser known is that the grain-like food, often referred to as the perfect protein, can be incorporated into practically any recipe from breakfast to dessert. Fortunately, that's where The Quinoa Cookbook: Nutrition Facts, Cooking Tips, and 116 Superfood Recipes for a Healthy Diet enters the story. IS IT DIFFICULT TO USE? One aspect of quinoa that you might not be aware of is that the superfood is easy to prepare. And The Quinoa Cookbook makes it even easier by offering cooking tips and over 100 simple recipes to help you cut down on gluten (or eliminate it completely), lose weight and incorporate quinoa into your everyday life. The versatile quinoa can serve as the main ingredient in recipes such as the delicious Quinoa Risotto With Mushrooms and Thyme. At the same time it is a healthy substitute as demonstrated in the Flourless Chocolate Cake or Quinoa Porridge. DID YOU KNOW? �?� Quinoa contains all nine of the essential amino acids humans need to stay healthy �?� Quinoa is a rich source of calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron, B vitamins, vitamin E, copper, zinc and dietary fiber �?� Quinoa promotes weight loss and is one of the only plants with protein; it is closely related to species such as beets and spinach THE QUINOA COOKBOOK INCLUDES: �?� Quinoa nutrition facts, cooking tips and a brief history of the ancient superfood �?� 116 recipes that introduce quinoa into every meal of the day, and dessert too �?� A "Bonus Section" containing a sample menu for both everyday dining and entertaining �?� Recipes that incorporate quinoa into your favorite international dishes from Japan to Mexico �?� A chapter dedicated to ensuring that you understand how to work with quinoa and ach… (more)

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Quinoa is a hip little super grain (or really seed) that has been gaining more and more attention recently due to the fact that it is a complete protein grain, is high in fiber and is naturally gluten free. When it crossed my radar a few years ago I knew little about how to cook it or use it in my meals. Mostly I used it as a rice substitute when cooking Asian foods at home.

This cookbook is a nice introduction to the many other ways quinoa can be used in your meals. The author has a few chapters of background information about the seed's nutrition and history as well as the basics of preparing it in a few different ways - cooked, toasted, germinated and as flour. Then there is a chapter each dedicated to breakfast, lunch and dinner, dessert and global cuisine. My Kindle edition also includes a bonus chapter of American favorites remade with quinoa and a few sample menus.

I have not yet made any of the recipes out of the cookbook, but the basic preparation instructions mesh with my experience. On reading through the recipes they all appeared clear with the exception of a few instances where the ingredients called for water and the instruction called for stock, but in those cases it was obvious which was correct so with a little common sense I suspect they will all cook up well. I went through and marked a dozen or so recipes to add to our menu planning at some point and I look forward to trying them.

If you are cooking gluten free, do be aware that not all the recipes contained in the cookbook are gluten-free. Many call for flour. But if you are experienced in gluten-free cooking and baking I suspect you could adjust the recipes to meet your needs without too much difficulty.

Overall, I'm quite pleased to have this cookbook on my Kindle shelf. (

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Cooking & Food. Nonfiction. HTML:

You've read about quinoa's myriad health benefits, noticed its migration on to menus, even learned how to correctly pronounce its name, and now the important part: How do you incorporate quinoa into your kitchen?

There's little wonder why quinoa�??a gluten-free, superfood rich in protein and antioxidants�??has transformed from obscure ancient seed into modern culinary staple. While quinoa has become well known, what is lesser known is that the grain-like food, often referred to as the perfect protein, can be incorporated into practically any recipe from breakfast to dessert. Fortunately, that's where The Quinoa Cookbook: Nutrition Facts, Cooking Tips, and 116 Superfood Recipes for a Healthy Diet enters the story.

IS IT DIFFICULT TO USE? One aspect of quinoa that you might not be aware of is that the superfood is easy to prepare. And The Quinoa Cookbook makes it even easier by offering cooking tips and over 100 simple recipes to help you cut down on gluten (or eliminate it completely), lose weight and incorporate quinoa into your everyday life.

The versatile quinoa can serve as the main ingredient in recipes such as the delicious Quinoa Risotto With Mushrooms and Thyme. At the same time it is a healthy substitute as demonstrated in the Flourless Chocolate Cake or Quinoa Porridge.

DID YOU KNOW?

�?� Quinoa contains all nine of the essential amino acids humans need to stay healthy

�?� Quinoa is a rich source of calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron, B vitamins, vitamin E, copper, zinc and dietary fiber

�?� Quinoa promotes weight loss and is one of the only plants with protein; it is closely related to species such as beets and spinach

THE QUINOA COOKBOOK INCLUDES:

�?� Quinoa nutrition facts, cooking tips and a brief history of the ancient superfood

�?� 116 recipes that introduce quinoa into every meal of the day, and dessert too

�?� A "Bonus Section" containing a sample menu for both everyday dining and entertaining

�?� Recipes that incorporate quinoa into your favorite international dishes from Japan to Mexico

�?� A chapter dedicated to ensuring that you understand how to work with quinoa and ach

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