Quinoa Got Me Thinkin

[penman53 493]

I was reading the Quinoa posts yesterday and I got my creative wheels turning. I have always liked stuffed bell peppers. So I decided to do the following:

1. Cooked some ground turkey meat, season with season salt and pepper and lots fo garlic powder.

2. Cooked 1/2 cup of Quinoa after rinsing and browning it.

3. Sauted some celery and white onion.

I cooked all of these seperate and then combined it into one skillet, I then added 1.5 small cans of tomatoe sauce.

After I boiled the bell peppers, I drained them and then started stuffing the peppers with the turkey/quinoa mixture.

I put in some of the mixture and then put in a good size piece of american cheese.< /p>

Then more cheese and then more filler.

Half way during the filling, I put in some of the unused tomatoe sauce,

At the end, I topped off the pepper with the remaining tomatoe sauce and put a cross of american cheese across the top. Just to make it plenty cheesy, I topped them off with a little left over mozzerella cheese.

I plan on baking them at 350 until they are all warm and bubbly.

I will post pics tonight after dinner is served.

Mark

[penman53 493]

I was reading the Quinoa posts yesterday and I got my creative wheels turning. I have always liked stuffed bell peppers. So I decided to do the following:

1. Cooked some ground turkey meat, season with season salt and pepper and lots fo garlic powder.< /p>

2. Cooked 1/2 cup of Quinoa after rinsing and browning it.

3. Sauted some celery and white onion.

I cooked all of these seperate and then combined it into one skillet, I then added 1.5 small cans of tomatoe sauce.

After I boiled the bell peppers, I drained them and then started stuffing the peppers with the turkey/quinoa mixture.

I put in some of the mixture and then put in a good size piece of american cheese.

Then more cheese and then more filler.

Half way during the filling, I put in some of the unused tomatoe sauce,

At the end, I topped off the pepper with the remaining tomatoe sauce and put a cross of american cheese across the top. Just to make it plenty cheesy, I topped them off with a little left over mozzerella cheese.

I plan on baking them at 350 until they are all warm and bubbly.

I will post pics tonight after dinner is served.

Mark

[RJ'S/beginning 5,358]

can't wait to see the photo!

[gamergirl 4,610]

That sounds scrumptious and healthy! Looking forward to the pics

[joatsaint 2,814]

Stop that! You're making me hungry. :-P

On second thought, go ahead and post your food porn pics.

[penman53 493]

Well I have good news and bad news. Good news is my wife loved it, the bad news is she took a fork and tore the top open on one to see if it was done do I didn't want to take a picture of it. But I had enough filling to make a couple more and I will go and do that next week and take a picture then ok? Sorry but it was good. So quinoa is the way to go.

[AmandaRaeLeo 2,146]

I have a great quinoa and black bean chili recipe. Soooooo flavorful.

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/217002/quinoa-and-black-bean-chili

[roundisashape 712]

I like it mixed with cabbage, ground turkey and soy sauce - tastes like the inside of an egg roll .

Also saw a recipe online earlier for toasted quinoa. I don't remember where I saw it now, but it was being mixed into chocolate to give a "rice krispy" crunch.