Gluten Free Safari: Recipes/Gluten Free Grains
When one embarks on the adventure of eating gluten free, grains such as amaranth, millet, buckwheat, and quinoa (among others) become your new best friends!
Gluten Free Safari's go-to spicy, veggie potluck dish: Quinoa with Onions, Brussels sprouts, and red pepper flakes.
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Quick, tasty, and a little different --
This is my own "creation", borne of necessity:
Start quinoa in rice cooker. If it's not pre-rinsed, you need to rinse it first. Slice onions, put brussels sprouts in olive oil, saute with some red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Put onions/brussels sprouts on top of quinoa in Corningware dish, insulate top and bottom with towels, put in double paper bag to carry. I took this dish to a potluck: when I arrived three hours after I left the house, it was still warm!
This is my own "creation", borne of necessity:
Start quinoa in rice cooker. If it's not pre-rinsed, you need to rinse it first. Slice onions, put brussels sprouts in olive oil, saute with some red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Put onions/brussels sprouts on top of quinoa in Corningware dish, insulate top and bottom with towels, put in double paper bag to carry. I took this dish to a potluck: when I arrived three hours after I left the house, it was still warm!
Quinoa: a popular gluten free grain. From the Bolivian altiplano to our plates!
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January 20-22, 2011: This NPR story confirms what those of us who have been buying quinoa from Trader Joe's and elsewhere already know: the price has gone up! Is it because quinoa is in demand as a higher-protein gluten free alternative to many of the "first generation" gluten free flours? (Above image from California; it's licensed by Creative Commons). Read this fascinating story.
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Click: Demand for quinoa great for Bolivian farmers
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