Yogurt Quinoa
A delicious breakfast or meal recipe, Yogurt Quinoa is a great low carb recipe. Minimal ingredients, comes together in under 10 minutes and always super flavorful.Gut friendly, low carb and full of fun textures and flavors; this is a great substitute for Yogurt Rice.
Servings: 3
Calories: 296kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa (cooked)
- 1 cup yogurt (plain)
- 1 carrot (peeled and shredded)
- 1 cucumber (shredded)
- 1 unch ginger (grated)
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- ⅛ teaspoon asafetida
- 1 teaspoon urad dal
- 1 green chili
- 1 dried red chili
- 7-8 curry leaves
- 4-5 stalks cilantro
Instructions
- In a bowl add cooked quinoa and yogurt.
- Add shredded cucumber, carrots, ginger and salt.
- In a pan heat oil. Once hot add mustard seeds and urad dal and let them pop.
- Then add cumin seeds, asafetida, green and red chili. Let the seeds pop.
- Add the curry leaves and turn down the flame.
- Transfer half the tempering into the yogurt quinoa.
- Mix everything well.
- Add the remaining tempering, some more shredded vegetables and cilantro on top and serve.
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Notes
- This recipe is great with white quinoa like this recipe or with a a tricolor blend of quinoa too. Moreover, it works with white rice, brown rice, millets or couscous too.
- The quinoa in this recipe can be cooked slightly more to make the recipe creamy and delicious. And for the same reason freshly made quinoa generally gives a better result than leftover quinoa.
- Use only plain yogurt for the recipe. Also ensure it is not sour else the recipe will be super sour.
- To make the recipe Vegan, replace regular yogurt with non-dairy one. Almond, coconut or even peanut milk yogurt works great.
- Add more or less vegetables as you like. It can be made without any vegetables or with some more vegetables like onions, cabbage, peppers etc.
- Adjust the spice level of the recipe by changing the amount of ginger chili paste in the recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 296kcal | Carbohydrates: 47g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 108mg | Potassium: 670mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 3751IU | Vitamin C: 54mg | Calcium: 164mg | Iron: 3mg