Quinoa fried rice recipe | Vegetable quinoa fried rice recipe

Quinoa fried rice recipe – This simple quinoa fried rice is very easy to make needs just 15 mins to put together when you are ready with cooked quinoa and chopped vegetables.This vegetable quinoa fried rice tastes more like our regular fried rice only.

This is a healthy fried rice and those weight watchers can easily replace rice with quinoa.After trying out quite a handful of quinoa recipes, this is my recent try.Fried rice is most wanted by all this is my take using quinoa.

We have all of the goodness of traditional fried rice, but this fried rice is made with quinoa as a replacement for rice.Quinoa is rich in proteins and is a great healthy alternate for rice.

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Quinoa fried rice recipe

Quinoa fried rice recipe with vegetables

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time15 mins

Total Time25 mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Chinese, Indian

Servings: 1

Author: Sharmilee J

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
• 1 heaped tsp crushed garlic
• 1 tbsp onion finely chopped
• 2 tbsp carrot finely chopped
• 2 tbsp cabbage finely chopped
• 1 tbsp capsicum finely chopped
• 1 tbsp beans finely chopped
• 1/8 tsp soya sauce
• 1/4 tsp vinegar
• 1 tsp pepper powder
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp oil

Instructions

• First cook quinoa.Chop the vegetables finely and keep it ready.Heat oil add garlic, fry till slightly browned then add onion and saute till transparent.
• Add chopped carrot and beans first,saute for 2mins then add cabbage and capsicum.
• Saute for atleast 5mins or until raw smell of the veggies leave.Now add soya sauce keeping the flame in medium high, then lower the flame add vinegar.
• Add pepper powder and required salt.Saute and cook the veggies for 3-5mins until they shrink a bit.
• Add cooked quinoa toss well and switch off.

Notes

• You can add spring onions too.I didn't have in hand so skipped it
  and made it.
• The more the vegetables the more tastier and it will look so colorful and tempting too.

Steps to make Quinoa fried rice recipe:

1. First cook quinoa.Chop the vegetables finely and keep it ready.Heat oil add garlic, fry till slightly browned then add onion and saute till transparent.
   
2. Add chopped carrot and beans first,saute for 2mins then add cabbage and capsicum.
   
3. Saute for atleast 5mins or until raw smell of the veggies leave.Now add soya sauce keeping the flame in medium high, then lower the flame add vinegar.
   
4. Add pepper powder and required salt.Saute and cook the veggies for 3-5mins until they shrink a bit.
   
5. Add cooked quinoa toss well and switch off.
   

Serve hot.

Enjoy hot or warm!