Quinoa and Crispy Beans

[Kazza]

Serves 2

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Ingredients

1 tin Coles Organic 4 Bean mix
55g Quinoa
2 rashers free range Bacon - fat removed and chopped into bits
3 baby Capsicums - sliced
1 large Mushroom - sliced
small knob fresh Ginger - sliced thinly
sprinkle Cumin Seeds
Chilli flakes - to taste
3 cloves Garlic
1 red Onion - sliced
handful Shallots - chopped
1 tsp Manuka Honey
3 seed mix (recipe on site)

Directions

1. Cook quinoa according to packet instructions. Drain.
2. Saute bacon in non stick pan. When half way cooked add sprinkle of cumin seeds. Cook for a few minutes stirring regularly until seeds look slightly toasted.
3. Add beans, ginger, mushrooms and chilli flakes. Cook for 5 minutes.
4. Add quinoa, onion, capsicum and garlic. Cook for 3 minutes then stir in manuka honey.
5. Dish out and top with shallots and sprinkle of 3 seed mix.

Serving Suggestions

- Salad of lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes and avocado
- Stir fry vegetable combination of zucchini, carrots and baby spinach.

Comments

Superb!!

My previous efforts with quinoa have been pretty disastrous. Sparkles has been eating it with her salads this week and it looked so yummy I was left drooling over her bowl, imagining how those fluffy little pillows of grain would taste while rolling around my mouth. I know quinoa can be a bit bland by itself which makes it perfect for absorbing the flavours of whatever it's cooked with. Last week I was craving choko, this week its quinoa and after eating my experiment I want more!! Even though I was full after eating half the mix, I could have easily eaten the whole lot.

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[James Hunt]

1 tin Coles Organic 4 Bean mix

This must be a typo, surley. From the woman who gave me so much grief over opening a packet and claiming I cooked, to see you have actually admitted to opening a can of something, anything, rather than chasing down some Himalayan native, demanding some of their beans they grow on the south side of 'the' mountain that are rolled down in an avalanche during the month of April and captured in an organically made net consisting of fibres derived from the silk worm, silk that is flown in on the backs of exotic Thai Dragon fly's on Nepal's eastern breeze that gently massages the silk to form Kris-kross layers that will create a pattern on the beans that only a connoisseur of beans would recognise. To see you stooped, not only to Coles, but to a "Coles can of beans"??? well I should just slit my throat now, life as I know it is finally over, Nibiru is here, North Korea have launched, Covid 19 has spread to 37 countries, 25 of which are western and Australia's population has been halved.
OOO lunch....time to open that box of Aldi muesli I harvested from row 3 aisle 5 of the remote Aldi shop, paying for it with a smile, pinch on the bum and 2 bucks 76 mmmm maple and pecan clusters from a packet.