Diabetic Friendly Mexican Quinoa Skillet

For those of us who stimulate got Type II diabetes, you lot KNOW how difficult it is to uncovering something quick, slow in addition to tasty that won't mail your glucose meter into a spin. Well, hither is a recipe that is really diabetes friendly in addition to it SCREAMS comfort nutrient for me.

This recipe is super quick in addition to slow to make!!  It is definitely inward my 5 star recipe box in addition to I volition hold upwards freezing unmarried portions of it for my busy day quick hot lunch!!


This is delicious at room
temperature equally good !!

QUINOA LUNCH

1 loving cup chopped onion  
1 clove garlic minced
1 seeded in addition to de-veined jalapeno pepper chopped (optional)
1 loving cup white quinoa (rinsed good in addition to drained)
15 ounce tin depression common salt kidney beans, rinsed in addition to drained 
1  diced cerise bell pepper
14.5 ounce tin diced tomatoes (NOT-drained)
1  14.5 ounce tin of water
1 loving cup corn  (I used frozen)
3 teaspoons chili pulverization (see banking concern complaint nearly using jalapeno)
1 teaspoon solid soil cumin (don't run out out)
1 teaspoon common salt (or to taste)
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
4 ounce tin diced mild dark-green chiles (un-drained)


Make certain you lot rinse the dry out quinoa grain nether mutual frigidity running H2O earlier cooking it. Quinoa has a natural coating (almost similar a dust?) that tin gustation bitter if non rinsed off. Some brands of quinoa country "pre-rinsed" but I rinse that 1 too.......just to hold upwards prophylactic (it simply takes a 2d to do).

Saute the chopped onion inward a tablespoon of vegetable fossil oil until the onions are soft in addition to commencement smelling sweet. Add the garlic in addition to saute for some other thirty to sixty seconds (but lookout adult man in addition to thus it doesn't burn).

Add everything else, stir well, in addition to convey to a boil. Lower oestrus to a gentle simmer and put the lid on to create for 15-20 minutes (depending on how hot your pan is).  After xx minutes, plough oestrus OFF but leave lid on in addition to allow it sit down for about 10 minutes.

If you lot are novel to cooking quinoa, you lot volition know it is done when you lot encounter a TINY white sprout scroll within each grain of quinoa.

NOTE: I don't help for tons of spice, in addition to thus I oftentimes run out out the chopped jalapeno in addition to instead, purpose 1/8 teaspoon of cayenne.

NOTE: I freeze this inward 1 loving cup containers for a quick lunch.  The side past times side day, I popular 1 of these containers into the microwave (still frozen) in addition to oestrus on high for ii 1/2 minutes (about one-half that fourth dimension if it isn't frozen). It makes a wonderful tiffin !!



NOTE: My all fourth dimension favorite agency to swallow this (and perhaps it is simply me), but I dear it steaming hot, topped amongst a scoop of ice cold fatty costless cottage cheese.  Yum!!!  


ENJOY !!!

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