What can you make with leftover quinoa in the refrigerator?
Well, you could make fried not-rice by sautéing green onion, mushrooms, and green beans with quinoa, seasoning with red pepper flake, salt, and pepper, adding a handful of greens, and cracking an egg or two into the pan. Scramble to your liking and eat with a handful of torn parsley.
Or you could mix cold quinoa with quartered cooked beets, salad greens, chunks of goat or cream cheese, and lots of black pepper. Voilà: a tasty and practically instant salad. It's a clear winner in the "looks a mess; is delightful" category.
And of course, you could always use your quinoa for its intended purpose: as a base for a bowl of curry, stir-fry, or thick stew. I sautéed mine with sweet potato and lentil curry and a few leaves of chopped red chard.Hooray! Quinoa wins!
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I love the idea of using quinoa as a fried rice substitute (although I'm torn between that and the beet and goat cheese salad). I'm really enjoying your posts offering a variety of different options for a dish!
great way to use leftovers -- leftover grains are my fave to work with because the possibilities are endless.
I have never had quinoa, I might be one of the last people to have not tried it :) It really looks delicious.
These all sound like oustanding ideas! LEFTOVER QUINOA FOREVER.
I'm a big fan of not-rice fried rice with quinoa!
So many quinoa ideas! I have no excuse for buying it then leaving it sitting reproachfully in the cupboard.
YUM, love these ideas! I adore quinoa, and sometimes just cook it up so I have the leftovers in the fridge - so versatile! I think my favorite way is stirred up with roasted veggies and chickpeas with some balsamic vinaigrette.
I'm so excited to hear about everybody's quinoa plans! Grain enthusiasm for the win!!
This is definitely my new favorite thing to do with leftover quinoa: http://emmycooks.com/2012/03/16/quinoa-cakes-with-cheese-garlic-and-herbs/ But your salads look worthy of making a fresh batch of quinoa! I'll just have to make extra to be sure to have leftovers...
Haha I think a lot of my dishes fall into the "looks a mess; is delightful" category. And that beet dish sounds the yummiest use for quinoa to me!
I love quinoa! it's so versatile. I do love rice, but quinoa is perfect for changing things up. I like them most in some sort of salad (tabouli!) or to replace couscous as a gluten-free nutty alternative! thanks for the compilation of ideas (:
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