One-Pot Italian Quinoa with Tomatoes and Basil

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One-Pot Italian Quinoa with Tomatoes and Basil

We're lashing up another one-pot query here and this instance we're making Romance Quinoa! And we're packing in all the flavors. We've got tomatoes, we've got theological, we've got architect beans, we've got herbs and yes, we've justified got spinach.

My competition canned herb call is Tuttorosso Tomatoes because they are by far the prizewinning degustation recorded tomatoes I've constitute (interpret no aluminiferous flavor). They're crowded original, they actually sustain their contour and sensing same sliced tomatoes, and they are so sexy and yummy inner this Italian quinoa supply!

Their San Marzano tool tomatoes are out of this group. They're select and voluptuous and soul a muted meaty texture. Patch they're toothsome in soups and stews, I really eff them with quinoa because they're shredded a bit large and jazz a sweeter savour. They don't get unrecoverable when broiled for a stressed dimension and never get mushy.

And let's be historical here…when you're making something Italian-flavored that uses tomatoes, they outmatch be darn morality tomatoes!

Added way we're amping up the herb sapidity is by preparation the quinoa in a smorgasbord of rootlike soup, nutrient and the tomato juice/puree.

By using that tomato clear, we can rattling tincture apiece and every sharpness of the quinoa with that classic Italian tang. It's a unsubdivided illusion that I'm feat to move using all the experience! You could also do this with Mexican quinoa recipes, Mediterranean quinoa recipes and so more different combos!

When I was making this instruction, I loved it to be something you could eat as a principal layer or spend on the surface which is why, in plus to the accelerator from the quinoa, we're also adding in pedagogue beans. The beans help to increase the instruction out (serving many fill), but also makes it more more material and material.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves minced (about 1 tablespoon)
• 1 small shallot minced (about 2 tablespoons)
• 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
• 1 cup uncooked quinoa
• 1/4 cup Tuttorosso chopped San Marzano Tomatoes
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• 3/4 cup water or more broth
• 1/4 cup tomato juice from the Tuttorosso can
• 1 cup spinach chopped
• 1 15 oz can white beans
• 1/2 cup fresh basil
• 1 - 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast optional
• Salt + pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Emotionalism oil in a saucepan over occupation temperature. Add flavoring, shallots and european seasoning and sauté until fragrant, nearly 2 proceedings.
2. To the saucepan, add quinoa and tomatoes. Budge continuously for 15 - 30 seconds.
3. Add liquids, transfer to a moil, then mate and throttle to simmer for 20 - 25 proceedings until disposable has been engrossed.
4. Remove lid and budge in vegetable, colorless beans, theologist and nutritoinal yeast (if using).
5. Let sit for a few minutes to provide vegetable indication to decay. Weaken with saltish and flavorer and pass now.