How to cook quinoa
Learn how to cook quinoa that's light and fluffy every time to serve in place of rice in your favorite dinner dishes, or to make quinoa chocolate cake!
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw quinoa
- 1.75 cups lukewarm water plus more for rinsing
Instructions
Rinse the quinoa
- Place the raw quinoa in a medium-size bowl and fill the bowl with lukewarm water. Transfer the quinoa to a fine mesh strainer. I find that this works better than the specialized colanders they have for rinsing grains.
- With the quinoa still in the strainer, run lukewarm water over it until you can tell that the liquid coming out is no longer cloudy or soapy-looking.
- Press the quinoa into the strainer to remove as much of the water as possible.
Boil the quinoa
- Transfer the rinsed quinoa to a medium-size, heavy-bottom pot. Cover with the water from the recipe.
- Cover the pot, and bring the quinoa and water to a boil over a medium-high flame. Reduce the heat to low, and allow the quinoa to cook for 15 minutes.
Let the cooked quinoa rest
- Remove the pot from the heat without removing the lid. Allow the pot to sit, covered, for 10 minutes before removing the cover, fluffing the quinoa with a fork and serving.