Le Cordon Bleu Paris Celebrates Quinoa 2013

Word is getting out around the world about the Year oF Quinoa 2013. The highly renowned cooking gurus at Le Cordon bleu in Paris welcomed a peruvian delgation recently. See the article below. Here in the UK I have seen quinoa used as an ingredient on numerous television programs including the well known Saturday Morning Kitchen. There is still some mystery in some people’s mind about how to cook quinoa. This will reduce as quinoa is shown to be very easy to use and can be adapted in many uses and many quinoa recipes.

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Superb Quinoa Recipes From Chef Bryan Woolley

These three quinoa recipes demonstrate how easy it is to include quinoa into a wide range of meals. The first one includes chick peas which is well known to taste great with quinoa. They both have that slight nutty flavour and crunch to them. This is as long as you don't overcook them.

The second recipe has anothe legume called black beans. These are hard to find here in the UK and I usually have to buy them tinned. I much prefer to prepare them myself from scratch. 

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The Year of Quinoa 2013

On the 20th February 2013 the official launch of the “Year of Quinoa” took place at the UN headquarters. Dignataries present at the launch included Director General José Graziano ds Silva, UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, President Evo Morales of Bolivia and First Lady Nadine Heredia Alarc?n de Humala of Peru. (They are big on names and titles at the UN!)

The event was to celebrate Quinoa as the Andean super food. Quinoa is a highly nutritious, cereal like crop that is rich in protein and micronutrients.

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Quinoa Egg Bake Recipe

There are very few really good quinoa recipes that bake the quinoa. This is one I found today that uses quinoa as a base for an egg dish. It is quite innovative and I will be trying out this cooking method with other ingredients. I expect it to be useable for sweet quinoa bakes as well as savoury.

Breakfast For the Week: 250-Calorie Quinoa Egg Bake

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St. Luke's Chef Demonstrates Cooking With Quinoa

Its Nice to see a proper chef demonstrating exactly how to cook quinoa. To view the demonstration just click on the link below. I think I can safely say that quinoa is now becoming a mainstream food ingredient. Most people have heard of it and at least know how to prepare it.

St. Luke's Chef Demonstrates Cooking With Quinoa

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