Aachi Samayal

Quinoa is really a new ingredient to me, and i am exploring more about it by reading so many food blogs. And i really love to have sweet in all my meal, but i don't actually. But today i really feel like having some sweet, so found this awesome quinoa pudding in a blog. And found it to be so yummy. This is a very simple and easy recipe. I have done this milk payasam with sugar and also Jaggery both will turn out really well. I have done payasam with rice, vermicelli, Basmathi, Lentils but this is a new try. 

So i cooked the quinoa separately and then added with the jaggery syrup. To add some crunchiness i added cashew and Pistachios. Kids loved it and was so excited to see the small tiny balls in that. You can make it into a thick Pudding or thin one by adding milk. I made it thin so it will be easy to drink. Now lets see how to make it....!!

Ingredients :

Preparation :

Quinoa Briyani

This is the first time i am making quinoa, all my friends used to try and i dont know why it took so long to even try. /but when i tried it was really awesome and tasted really good. I loved it and gonna try once a week. I bought this Quinoa in Sprouts, you can find in any local store. It will look like a small tiny white ball. More smaller than a mustard. And it cooks really fast and tastes good.

Cuisine : South Indian

Preparation time : 20 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Main Course

Main Ingredient : Quinoa

Ingredient :

Quinoa - 2 cups

Carrot - peeled , chopped 1 cup

Beans- 1 cup (Chopped)

Peas half Cooked - 1 cup

Potato - Peeled, chopped 1 cup

Cooked Soya chunks - hand full

Cashew - 5

Onion 

Chili - 5

Turmeric - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1 tbsp

Red Chili powder- 1 tsp

Curry leaves

Salt to taste

Preparation :

• Wash the quinoa in a running water with a sieve. Because if you don't use a sieve, then the Quinoa will run away. So the sieve should be tiny enough to hold the Quinoa.
• Now take a Pan and add little oil, when it is hot enough add Mustard and Split black gram.
• Wen the mustard starts to crackle add the cashew, onions, chili.
• After it is nicely done add vegetables. Vegetables are your option, you can add anything that you add to the Normal rice briyani. It should be nicely cooked so it will be easy to cook with Quinoa. Quinoa takes only a very few minutes to cook. Hardly 15 mins. You can add the cooked soya chunks with the vegetables.
• Add some turmeric, all masalas ( Turmeric, coriander powder and red chili powder)
• Add curry leaves when it is done add quinoa and saute a little.
• Then add 4 cups of water or as instructed in the label. 
• Close it with the lid and in intervals stir it gently.
• It will be ready in 10-15 mins.