Minted Green Quinoa Pilaf
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recipe by Tenina Holder https://tenina.com/
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- Total Time
- 31mins
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- Serves
- 4
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- Calories
- 193
This vegetarian Quinoa Pilaf is a great dish as a main, or for the meat-lover, as a side dish with some chicken or fish. Fresh and fantastic!
Inspired by: https://tenina.com/recipes/minted-green-quinoa-pilafrecipe updated 8 Jun 2020
Ingredients
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- Mint
- ¼ cup (about 6.6 g)
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- Water
- 75 g (about ¼ cup)
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- Leek
- 1 (about 90 g)
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- Spring onion
- 4 (about 60 g)
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- Asparagus
- 397.25 g (about 26 ½)
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- Quinoa
- 150 g (about ¾ cup)
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- Water
- 1 L (about 1 kg)
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- Garlic clove
- ½ (about 3 g)
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- Vegetable stock powder
- ¾ tsp (about 1.88 g)
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- Frozen peas
- 65 g (about ½ cup)
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- Butter
- 30 g (about 2 ⅛ tbsp)
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- Button mushroom
- 200 g (about 6 ⅔)
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- Extra virgin olive oil
- as needed
Tools
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TM5
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Medium bowl
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Large serving bowl
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Tm5 bowl
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Simmering basket
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Sink
Step preview
- Add quinoa to the simmering basket
- Set up your TM5
- Add water to the TM5 bowl
- Fit TM5 bowl to TM5
- Cook - approx 19 min, 100°C, speed 3
- Remove simmering basket
- Transfer content of TM5 bowl to sink
- Set aside simmering basket
- Add mint, garlic clove, vegetable stock powder, water and frozen peas to the TM5 bowl
- Purée - approx 15 sec, speed 4
- Transfer content of TM5 bowl to medium bowl
- Add butter, leek and spring onion to the TM5 bowl
- Chop - approx 5 sec, speed 5
- Scrape down sides of TM5 bowl
- Sauté - approx 5 min, varoma, speed 1
- Then add button mushroom, asparagus, frozen peas, vegetable stock powder and water to the TM5 bowl
- Cook - approx 4 min, 100°C, reverse speed 1
- Transfer content of simmering basket to TM5 bowl
- Stir - approx 10 sec, reverse speed 1
- Transfer content of TM5 bowl to large serving bowl
- Garnish with mint
- Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil