Quinoa! Topping the world culinary charts as the latest Super Food!!! This one’s a real boon from heaven for gluten-free diets! Loaded with protein, this is one of the few plant foods that contain an abundance of all nine essential amino acids. Being equally high in fiber, magnesium, vitamin B & E, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and various beneficial antioxidants… this surely lives up to its reputation as the new food prodigy on the block!
Even with these wondrous attributes Quinoa enjoys, I was personally never a great fan of it until I was introduced to this recipe by Rakhee Vaswani …, celebrity chef n friend. Now a
frequent start to many meals in my house, I’m sure it’ll grow just as fast on you’ll. Using multi-coloured quinoa turns it into a visual delight adding a new facet to this already multidimensional elixir.
Indian spices like cumin seed powder and black salt give this salad a desi style chatpata flavor while the fresh orange juice imparts the requisite tanginess.
You can manipulate the texture by adding nacho chips or jowar puffs on top whilst serving for that beautiful crunchiness.
A piece of advice: Serve chilled, and see, it drives away the scorching summer heat.
Happy clean eating folks!!! Do share your feedback!
