How to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Mexican Quinoa Stew

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mexican quinoa stew. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mexican Quinoa Stew is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Mexican Quinoa Stew is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mexican quinoa stew using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mexican Quinoa Stew:

1. Get 1 teaspoon olive oil
2. Make ready 1 medium onion, chopped
3. Prepare 1 celery stalks, chopped
4. Prepare 1 cup carrots, chopped
5. Make ready 2 cloves garlic, pressed or minced
6. Get 1/2 cup bell peppers, seeded and chopped(any colour or mix of all as per your choice)
7. Make ready 2 cups water
8. Prepare 1 large tomatoe, chopped
9. Get 1 cup cooked black or red beans
10. Take 1 teaspoon ground cumin
11. Prepare 2 teaspoons fine sea salt
12. Get 1/2 cup frozen peas
13. Prepare 1/2 cup frozen corn kernels
14. Take 1 cup quinoa (dry/uncooked)
15. Make ready 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
16. Take 1/8 teaspoon red chilli powder
17. Take 1 tsp sauce(shezwan sauce)
18. Get as required Freshly ground black pepper
19. Make ready as required Coriander leaves for garnish
20. Prepare as required Some lemon wedges

Steps to make Mexican Quinoa Stew:

1. Soak beans at night and boil them in the morning with salt and water till cooked. You can use tinned ones too
2. In a pan, warm the oil over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, celery, carrots, tomato and peas.
3. Sauté until the vegetables are tender. - Now add corn and cooked beans, cumin, salt and season with both pepper powders and water. Cover and let the tomato be mushy to make thick gravy.
4. Wash quinoa 3-4 times and let it cook in water in a separate pan. But you can cook it in the same pan along with gravy too.
5. Once boiling, lower the heat, cover the pot, and let the gravy simmer until the quinoa and all vegetables get nicely incorporated with all the flavors.
6. You can check the taste of gravy at this stage and add more salt and black pepper if needed - Add Coriander leaves generously and give a nice mix
7. Your healthy Mexican flavor quinoa gravy which is an ideal meal for weight watchers is ready.
8. Garnish with some lemon wedges or squeeze some lemon juice just before serving

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