This bowl of hearty deliciousness is also visually beautiful. If you love pretty food, your eyes will have a party with the three stunning stripes of food in your bowl. It is also on point protein wise and has fantastic slow burning carbs to tamper down cortisol and provide ample energy to your morning.
Neapolitan Quinoa
Description
This bowl of hearty deliciousness is also visually beautiful. If you love pretty food, your eyes will have a party with the three stunning stripes of food in your bowl. It is also on point protein wise and has fantastic slow burning carbs to tamper down cortisol and provide ample energy to your morning.
Ingredients
Instructions
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Set a small frying pan to medium/high heat. Lightly spray with coconut or olive oil.
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Add quinoa, sprinkle on the salt or cinnamon and add the 1-2 teaspoons Gentle Sweet. Heat the quinoa to piping hot, stirring occasionally.
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Now create three vertical layers in your bowl. Put the hot quinoa on one side of with TH Gentle Sweet on top (and more cinnamon, if desired). Arrange the blueberries down the middle. Don't stir!
Note
Recipe Author: Serene Allison
Note 1 - If you find the 3/4 cup amount of cottage cheese is too much food for you, you can reduce it (and even reduce the amount of quinoa if you’re not a big eater in the morning) to 1/2 cups of each. If opting for any of these lowered amounts of cottage cheese and/or quinoa, you won’t have quite enough protein. Remember, you need 25 - 30 grams to fuel your lean body mass and protect your metabolism. There are some easy ways to get more bio-available protein in your meal with less food volume. You could add a 1/2 scoop of Optimized Collagen to your morning coffee here and here. Check out two delicious, yet waist trimming ways to make your morning coffee with Optimized Collagen here and here. Or, you could add a 1/2 serving (2 Tbs.) of Vanilla Optimized Whey to your coffee or blend it with a glass of unsweetened nut milk. Check out how to make Vanilla Optimized Coffee here. Another alternative is to mix a 1/2 serving (1/2 a Tbs.) of ESSENTIAL (our essential amino acid formula which supplies you with excellent protein) with some water and have it with your meal.
Note 2 - If you do not have our Trim Healthy Gentle Sweet just yet, you can use another plan approved sweetener to taste. On plan sweeteners are stevia, monk fruit, allulose, erythritol and xylitol. If you would rather not use an erythritol or xylitol blend you can use a doonk of of pure stevia with just a small amount of honey to sweeten (a doonk is 1/32 of a tsp.). Honey can be used on plan but not in high amounts. It works best when paired with stevia so as to reduce glycemic impact and in an E Meal rather than an S Meal if you want to shed fat.
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"Fresh Start Menu" Notes & Serving Suggestions
- Serenes Neapolitan Quinoa (E) is featured in the "Fresh Start Menu"! Please see the notes below for instructions on how to cook up a week's worth of quinoa below for easy prep for your breakfasts!!
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"Cook Up Quinoa For The Week Instructions"
Soak the Quinoa: (SOAKING IS TOTALLY OPTIONAL)
- Place the quinoa in a pot with water to just cover the quinoa, add a little bit of apple cider vinegar, cover the pot and let set overnight.
- In the morning, place fresh water in the soaking quinoa and stir it around and then pour that water off, add more fresh water, stir it around and then pour that water off again. Do the rinse and stir a few times.
Cook The Quinoa:
- Place the quinoa in a pot.
- At the top where your quinoa stops, you will place enough water to go to that first little ridge on your middle finger.
- Cover the pot and over medium heat bring to a boil for 15 minutes.
- Then turn off the stove and walk away, the quinoa will get nice and fluffy!!
- Place your cooked quinoa in refrigerator and pull out what you need for your quinoa recipes that call for pre-cooked quinoa.
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Quinoa was the Super Food Spotlight on "Episode 261" of The Poddy! Click here to learn more about all of the amazing health benefits of quinoa!!
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