Thursday, March 20, 2014

Fried Pineapple Quinoa


Fried Pineapple quinoa

Fried pineapple quinoa is a variation of pineapple fried rice. I came across this similar dish with pineapple on a blogger friends site & just fell for it. This is a dish of bursting flavors & will leave you amazed with every bite. 


Fried Pineapple quinoa
Prep Time-5mins | Cook Time-10mins | Yields-2 Servings
Ingredients
1Cup cooked Quinoa
1/2 onion finely chopped
2Carrots sliced
1Small bell pepper sliced
1Cup fresh pineapple pieces
1Tsp ginger garlic
1Green chili sliced
1Tsp garam masala or curry powder 
1/2Tsp red chili powder (Adjust acc.)
1/4Tsp soy sauce
1Tbs oil
Salt for Taste
Pinch of sugar (Optional)
Garnish
Few spring onions sliced
2Tsp toasted coconut flakes 
Fried Pineapple quinoa
Directions
- Heat a wide pan with oil. Add ginger garlic paste to pan & fry it for few seconds. To that add onion & green chilli's. Stir fry them for 1min. 
- Now add pineapples, bell pepper & carrots to pan & stir fry. Add chili powder, salt & garam masala powder to pan & close it with a lid for 2mins.
- Add cooked quinoa to pan along with soy sause & stir fry it for few seconds.Adjust salt & chili powder if needed. 
- Switch off heat & garnish with spring onions & toasted coconut flakes. 
Note 
- Instead of quinoa you can use rice. 
- You can replace garam masala powder with curry powder of your choice.

Fried Pineapple quinoa

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10 comments:

  1. I love quinoa. I like the idea of adding soy sauce to the dish. Good one.

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  2. Delicious quinoa recipe. I didnt prepare any quinoa dish yet.. but this one tempting me to prepare. will try it for sure.. nice clicks too..

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  3. Nice idea. Fried pineapple quinoa looks perfect and delicious.

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  4. looks so tasty.. I am big fan of Quinoa

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  5. So tempting recipe....lovely...

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  6. Looks totally healthy and tasty!!

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  7. Yummy it looks ... would love to try it..thank u for the recipe

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  8. wow such healthy combo and Fried pineapple quinoa looks fantastic :)

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