Apple, Almond Quinoa

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup uncooked quinoa
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 3/4 cup diced onion
• 3/4 cup fine diced carrot
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 cups vegetable stock or 2 cups chicken stock
• salt
• 1 teaspoon red curry
• 1 1/2 cups finely diced apples
• 1 teaspoon butter or 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 1/3 cup crushed almonds, toasted
• black pepper
• 1/2 lemon, juice of
• garnish with chopped cilantro

Recipe

• 1 heat olive oil in a sauce pan on a medium heat.
• 2 when the onion is soft, add the carrot and garlic and cook for another 2 minutes.
• 3 stir in broth, quinoa, salt and curry and bring to a boil.
• 4 cover, reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes or until the liquid is absorbed.
• 5 while the quinoa is cooking, in another saute pan, heat butter on a medium-high heat and add diced apples to pan. allow them to saute, not stirring them too often so that they brown a little.
• 6 when quinoa is cooked, remove from heat and stir in apples and almonds. add lemon juice to taste and garnish with cilantro.