Cooking Quinoa is a Great Way to Add Nutrition to Your Diet!
Quinoa, as soon as the sustenance of INCA warriors makes the incredible journey to the shelves of health food shops through the land. It is belief that Quinoa started to be cultivated over 5000 in the past in the mountains of Bolivia called the staple diet of INCA warriors who does feast for this nutritious food while preparing for battle. Armed with their weapons and sufficient energy from Quinoa's slow release carbohydrate the INCA's would attempt long marches and go into battle safe knowing the Quinoa grain gave them strength and energy.
A highly durable and resilient crop, Quinoa thrived during these arid high altitude regions but was nearly wiped out during the 1500 by the Spanish explorer called Francisco Pizarro. Quinoa was regarded as being a scared food of the INCA people and Francisco considered that if he destroyed the Quinoa plant he could weaken the culture in the INCA. He was unsuccessful and 5000 years on Quinoa is available on the shelves of many supermarkets.
I am not fearful of trying out a new challenge but I know everybody is. I have a weekly email postbag asking that they should cook quinoa. Most apparently express a fear of doing something wrong and ruining their food. The best thing to accomplish is imagine how you cook some other seed, grain or legume and apply that to quinoa. By doing this you suddenly have a big range of possible ways to eat quinoa you could try out.
Fiber can be one vitamins and minerals of quinoa that I only have to mention. I've for ages been constipated (not really that I have to let you know) and also since I started incorporating quinoa inside my diet, I started becoming regular. It's is loaded with fiber that really help eases elimination and it gets rid of toxic materials with your colon.
We really may need to look at our daily intake and then try to move more towards alkaline foods and drinks. There is a big turn to "home-cooking" but in addition a more practical approach that we consider easier and quicker strategies to food preparation. Gone are the days whenever we had hours or even days to prepare foods for us and our families to use. We need to update our types of cooking, our range of food choices and spend our time economically in the kitchen. Stir fries have become quick and nutritious as are some homemade biscuits and cakes. This means exploring the health benefits of foods for example Quinoa which is a grain/seed that's a complete protein, has all of the amino acids, has iron, has fibre, and may be cooked in all sorts of ways as affecting The Quinoa Cookbook.