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How To Cook Quinoa In Your Rice Cooker

January 4, 2017 by Andrea Mabee 2 Comments

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This might be absolutely obvious to some of you, but I couldn’t believe how easy it was to make quinoa in my rice cooker. My kitchen is full with gadgets so I am very happy to find more uses for a single-purpose item like my rice cooker.

I have a very basic model. It has “heat” and “warm” and by some wizardry it always knows when my rice is cooked just right. I never have to worry about overcooking or burning grains to the bottom of a pan (or boiling dry when I get distracted).

I’ve also used my rice cooker to cook amaranth and millet. I believe it is possible to cook lentils and beans too but I will have to test it out for your guys because I worry about the amount of water that evaporates while the beans cook. Hmmm, mental note to add that to my to-do list :p

Depending on the size of your rice cooker/ family you might be able to make a LOT more at a time. It is always 1 part quinoa to 2 parts liquid.

Note that you can also use broth in place of the water if you know you will have quinoa as a savory dish. I LOVE quinoa cooked in chicken broth but I also find it gets a little brown on the bottom of the rice cooker. So worth it though! I didn’t use broth this time because I want to test some new quinoa recipes (including quinoa porridge!).

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How To Cook Quinoa In Your Rice Cooker
Author: BackToMyRoots.ca
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup quinoa
  • 2 cups water
  • pinch of salt
Instructions
  1. Rinse the quinoa in a mesh strainer for a minute to get the bitter outter coating off the grain
  2. Add quinoa, water and salt to your rice cooker and set to cook
  3. Wait until it is done, wait a couple minutes and then fluff with a fork
  4. Enjoy
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