Finally we tried quinoa! Every cooking blog,
hundreds of recipes through Pinterest, all include quinoa. It’s a trend and of
course I had to try it. First of all, it is not easy to find here in Shanghai.
I went to some of the Western stores but nothing there, so I decided to
order it online using TaoBao, a Chinese website where you can literally find
anything! Found it, asked my Chinese colleague to order it and a couple of days
later it arrived.
So me and my boyfriend decided to have a nice
Sunday dinner again (I think this can become a very nice tradition) and tried something
new: Quinoa burgers!
It was a little bit improvised and we just used
all leftovers we still had in our fridge:
- Half a cup of quinoa
- Chicken breast
- Peas
- Red union
- 2 eggs
- Garlic
- 1 chili
- Vegetable stock
- A bit of flour
- Lots of pepper/salt/other herbs you like
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| Before putting them in the fridge |
It’s actually very simple:
Cook the quinoa (follow the instructions on the
package). Add some chicken/vegetable stock, that makes the taste even better! Pan fry
the chicken breast and chop it into small pieces. Cut the onion, garlic and
chili so it’s ready to go in the mixer.
When all this is cut, put everything in a mixer (don’t
forget the peas!) and add it with the quinoa in a separate bowl. Add eggs and
flour, add pepper, salt and other herbs you like (we used Italian herbs) then mix everything with your hands (Yes, get dirty!). If it’s all mixed together
you take a bit of the mixture and you make your burger. We were able to get 5 burgers out of
all of this, amazing for just using our leftovers!
Put the burgers in the fridge for half an hour
before you start frying them. After put them in a pan and fry them a little bit
on both sides. We didn't have the burger buns so we just used some toasted
bread and added an extra slice of tomato (that’s all what we had left in the
fridge).
It tasted really good! I’m so happy I tried
quinoa and that I really like it! I am definitely going to experience more with
it! Enjoy!
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| And ready! Enjoy! |
Mmmm, should try this one out! Never tried to make burgers out of Quinoa!
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