I LOVE fried rice. I love quinoa. I thought I was such a genius when it occurred to me to combine the two, but it turns out this idea has already been thought of (most notably for me here - comprehensive!). Either way, I always feel like there's a little more difficulty in making a meal for one when you're sure you won't want the leftovers. Given that my fridge was full of so many other recent cooking adventures, this was one of those times.
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| Delicious raw ingredients |
Hence, many tiny piles of vegetables. I like my fried rice with some serious variety and was in no way planning to deprive the quinoa of this treatment. I chopped up tiny amounts of onion, cauliflower, broccoli, green onions, celery, carrots, bok chuy, garlic and ginger. I made a simple flat omelette in sesame oil (so it would taste Asian :)) and then chopped it into little strips. I stir-fried all of these veggies together in sesame oil, added a little veggie stock mixed into water, and then the quinoa, omelette and a handful of pine nuts*. Once the liquid evaporated, everything was ready and delicious, and waiting to be eaten with chopsticks and admired for it's prettiness. No tupperware for leftovers required.
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| Veggie fried quinoa goodness! |
*yes, these things are crazy expensive and are like gold! Fortunately, Wonderful Boyfriend of Mine is a Costco impulse shopper and bought a huge bag of them a while back, so I get to feel fancy and rich sometimes...
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