Quinoa

Hi,

I bought a box of Gogo Quinoa Royal: Black. The servings are per 100 grams, and I'm trying to figure how much that is in terms of cups. Would that be one cup dry?

For 100 it's 353 calories, 9 g fibre, 16 g protein, 71 carbs and 7 g fat.

I have a food scale, but doesn't measure correctly and it's probably the worst one I've ever used. :P

Thanks!

http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calori es/food/gogo-quinoa/quinoa-royal3A-black

According to CC, one cup dry is 626 calories.  You'd have to cook it to find out how much volume one cup of dry makes after it's cooked.  But if you cook 1/2 cup and it's a lot then you know it's 313 calories...etc.   Quinoa is awesome by the way and I eat it just about every week!!!

What is it? Like oatmeal?

I love Quinoa!

I make a Minty Quinoa Tabbouleh salad I just love and have been making it throughout the summer.

I found the recipe on Fine Cooking.

I don't know why but bulgar makes me want to eat and eat...like it naws at me, but I do not feel that way eating this dish.

How do you usually eat it?

Leslie, AKA Bulldogmoments

it's like rice or barley, but way better because it is packed with protien. it's a vegan's lifesaver.

I wouldn't say it's "packed" with protein Rayn.  It's about 15% protein if memory serves, but it is a complete protein with all the essential amino acids just like in meat or dairy.  

Bulldog, I use my rice cooker and mostly add vegetables like carrots, onion, broccoli, celery, peppers, chinese radish etc. and sometimes a little meat for extra flavour and protein.  I use organic boullion sometimes to flavour it as well, but I often freeze the water I use to steam vegetables and use that as the water to cook the quinoa in.  I've tried cooking it adding half water and half crushed tomatoes too.  My tastes are widely varied so I can eat it just about any way one can cook it.  I also use it for stuffing sometimes in turkey or chicken and whole trout or salmon...it's great that way too.  Oh and my Mom used it once in cabbage rolls and it was excellent.