Quinoa salad for breakfast is “high-test”. If your car were sputtering, backfiring, was sluggish and slow to respond, you’d examine the gas you were filling it with. Low octane fuel equals low octane results.
Similarly, if you’re sputtering, sluggish, slow, even backfiring, and your first meal of the day is laden with fats and carbohydrates, it’s time to upgrade to a high-octane breakfast.
Protein is high-octane. Sugars and fats are low-octane. The high quality of plant-based protein in quinoa, lentils, beans, hummus, nuts, and peanut butter make this the best fuel to get through your normal 10am energy crash.
My previous blog post “Quinoa How-To 101” shows how simple cooking quinoa is. Then, you can combine any ingredients you desire into your own quinoa salad creation.
Can quinoa salad save the world? Perhaps not, but it can give you a better start to the day, and a longer, smoother journey running on high octane fuel.
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Hi Chef Todd:
I’m not sure how to cook lentils. In fact, I guess I’m clueless. Do I cook them like rice? Let me know when you can.
BTW, I liked the video too. It was a new twist and it really grabs your attention. Do you put these together yourself? The music was different and fun.
Adios,
EK
Lentils CAN be cooked just like rice, or they can be cooked like pasta.
1 cup of lentils to 2 cups of liquid simmered until the peas are soft and absorb the liquid.
Or, an unmeasured amount of liquid into a large pot and simmer the lentils until soft and drain the excess liquid.
They’re a great food to add to your repitoire.
That is a wicked crazy video. Really creative and quirky. Too cool.
Thanks John. I REALLY appreciate kind comments.