Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, quinoa chili. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Quinoa Chili - This vegetarian, protein-packed chili is the perfect bowl of comfort food that you can Chili gives me the perfect excuse to have oh-so-crumbly cornbread on the side, except I overdo it and. Quinoa Chili is one of the tastiest healthy recipes! It's loaded with vegetables, quinoa, beans and it's all simmered together in a deliciously seasoned broth.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook quinoa chili using 20 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Chili:
- Get For the quinoa:
- Make ready 1/2 cup uncooked quinoa, rinsed well and drained
- Prepare 1 cup unsalted vegetable broth or water
- Get For the chili:
- Make ready 1 tbsp. olive oil
- Prepare 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Take 1 bell pepper, diced
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 can (8 oz.) unsalted tomato sauce
- Take 1 can (15 oz.) fire roasted diced tomatoes
- Make ready 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted black beans, rinsed and drained
- Get 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- Make ready 2 cups unsalted vegetable broth or water
- Take 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
- Get 3/4 cup frozen corn
- Make ready 1 tbsp. chili powder
- Get 1 tsp. each ground cumin, brown sugar
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. each salt, onion powder, garlic powder,
- Take 1/2 tsp. each chipotle chili powder, smoked paprika
- Make ready 1/4 tsp. each pepper, dried oregano
Quinoa- While you can cook the quinoa in the same pot as everything else, I recommend soaking it and cooking it separately for optimum digestion. This Pumpkin Quinoa Chili is the ultimate vegetarian chili recipe. It's full of protein, is made in a slow cooker and is packed with nutritious ingredients! I first ate this quinoa chili—that is, the quinoa chili that inspired this recipe—when Alex and I went to lunch on a break from a class at our adoption agency.
Steps to make Quinoa Chili:
- Quinoa: In a small saucepan with a tight-fitting lid, set the broth to boil over high heat. Once it's boiling, stir in the quinoa, place the lid on, lower the heat to medium-low and let it cook for 15 minutes. After times up, turn off the heat, but leave the lid on for another 5 minutes. Then fluff the quinoa with a fork and set it aside.
- Chili: In a large pot, heat the oil over medium heat. Once it's hot, add the onion and pepper with a pinch of salt. Cook until they've softened up a bit, about 5 minutes, then stir in the garlic and cook for another minute or so more, until fragrant. Then stir in the broth, canned tomatoes, tomato sauce and seasonings. Increase the heat to medium-high.
- Once it starts to come to a low boil, add in the beans and sweet potatoes. Let this simmer until the sweet potatoes are tender, which will depend on how big you diced them. Once they are tender, remove the pot from the heat and stir in the cooked quinoa and the corn. Serve with whatever toppings sound good.
It was a much needed break; our heads were. Stovetop Vegetarian Quinoa Chili: Cook the quinoa according to the directions on the package. Add in the onions and garlic and cook on medium. Warm up with this better-for-you chili made with quinoa, beans and veggies—plus a little heat from chipotle chile pepper powder. This smoky quinoa chili is full of flavor, packed with nutrition, and cooks in one pot for easy cleanup!
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