What is quinoa? What is the nutritional value? How do you eat it?

Quinoa, native to the Andes of South America, is the main traditional food of the Inca indigenous people. it has a history of eating and planting for more than 5000-7000 years, because of its unique rich and comprehensive nutritional value. It nurtured the Inca nation, which the ancient Incas called "the mother of food". Let's take a look at its nutritional value. How do you eat it?

What is the nutritional value of quinoa?

Quinoa is an easy-to-ripen and digestible food with a unique taste and a hint of nutty or ginseng fragrance. it has the functions of balanced supplement, enhancement of body function, repair of physique, regulation of immunity and endocrine, improvement of stress ability, prevention of disease, anti-cancer, weight loss, adjuvant treatment and so on. It is suitable for all groups to eat, especially for chronic diseases such as hyperglycemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart disease and so on. As well as infants and young children, pregnant women, children, students, the elderly and other special physique and life irregular people. Long-term consumption, the effect is remarkable.

Second, how to eat quinoa?

1. Eat alone. When cooking porridge, boil in boiling water for about 10-15 minutes, so that its expansion, the grain becomes translucent and then edible. Stew rice should not be too high firepower, such as the use of rice cooker, the amount of water should be a little more. To make it more fragrant, bake quinoa in a dry frying pan for a few minutes before entering the pan, stirring constantly to keep it from burning. If steamed, it needs to be soaked a few hours in advance. Quinoa is a compound starch food with high dietary fiber, and it takes a long time to absorb enough water before steaming.

2. Mix with other grains, such as quinoa Millet Congee, quinoa rice porridge, quinoa rice braised rice, white flour quinoa cake.

3. Boil soup, quinoa has a fragrant taste, which is suitable for making soup with other materials, and can also remove the fishy smell of fish and meat, such as quinoa abalone soup, quinoa spinach tomato soup, quinoa straw mushroom soup, quinoa chicken soup, quinoa tomato oxtail soup.

4. Chenopodium tea, stir-fry quinoa until golden brown, drink with boiled water in a few tablespoons in the cup, drink for physical fitness every day.