How to cook and cook quinoa?
Quinoa comes from the Andes, especially from Peru and Bolivia. It is considered and cooked like a cereal but in fact it is rather a seed, like poppy seeds for example! The plant on which quinoa seeds grow is like beetroot. Even though the quinoa consumed there for millennia, we North Americans only discovered it a few years ago. Quinoa has quickly become a favorite food of nutritionists and for good reason; his resume is impressive: a very high protein, high fiber, gluten free, the only vegetarian food that contains the 9 essential amino acids, iron, calcium, magnesium, folic acid ... So now you maybe understand better why you should integrate quinoa into your diet! In fact, quinoa has even been somehow victim of its very sudden popularity: it has questioned the food security of the countries that produce it . Fortunately, production is starting to diversify and it is even now possible to buy quinoa from Canada! Some companies grow in Ontario and Saskatchewan and this product is e...