How To Cook Fluffy Quinoa

Name: How to cook fluffy quinoa
Prep time: 3 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 18 min
Ingredients: 1 cup quinoa; 2 cups water; 1/2 teaspoon Salt

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Basics

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Grains, Salads

How to cook fluffy quinoa

Some of our readers wanted to know how we prepared fluffy Quinoa on our recent Minty Quinoa Salad recipe.

So here’s a simple, anyone-can-make recipe to cook the fluffiest quinoa. Super easy to put together. 🙂

Let’s go!

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How to cook fluffy quinoa

Quick and easy fluffy quinoa recipe

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Course Basics

Cuisine Universal

Keyword how to cook quinoa, quinoa, quinoa recipe

Prep Time 3 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 18 minutes

Servings cups

Calories 156kcal

Author Veganbell

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Ingredients

1 cup quinoa
2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon Salt

Instructions

Rinse quinoa until the water runs clear.
Transfer to a cooking pot. Add 2 cups of water + salt.
Turn up the heat to medium-high and bring it to a boil.
As it starts boiling, turn down the heat to medium. Cover the pot (with a lid), and let it simmer for 15 minutes.
*After 15 minutes* Turn off the heat and let it rest for 10 minutes.
Gently fluff the quinoa with a fork. Fluffy quinoa is ready!

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