Do you sometimes get in the mood for some fried rice? I do because it’s delicious! I try not to eat a lot of fried or greasy foods so I use quinoa in my ‘fried’ rice.

In a pot mix 1 cup of water for every 1/2 cup of quinoa you use. Careful, these little boogers puff up and a little goes a long way. Once it has reached a rapid boil for 5 minutes, cover it and take it completely off the heat for 15 minutes. Quinoa cooks like rice. You don’t want to uncover it and stir it or mess with it at all until the 15 minutes has passed. Cooking the quinoa this way instead of leaving it on simmer is simply an energy saving method. You could turn the heat down to a simmer and cover the pot once it reaches boiling point if you’d like.

I cooked onion, green pepper, red pepper, broccoli, carrots, peas and tempeh with some extra virgin olive oil and a couple dashes of soy sauce. Cook them depending on how you like the veggies…I like them with a little crunch. Keep your eye on them until they’re your desired texture.

In a separate pan I cooked some egg whites, then chopped them up ad added it to the pan with the veggies.

Once the quinoa was done I added it as well along with some more soy sauce, salt and red pepper.

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