Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Recipe (for Start & End of Detox & Fast)

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Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Easy Quinoa Recipe

When you start a full-body detox or a juice fast it's often hard to eat regularly one day and go all fresh fruits and vegetables the next. Many people set aside a couple days' transition period. Simple organic recipes such as this low-gluten quinoa recipe is perfect for these occasions.

Similarly, when you're coming off a juice only detox or else a fresh fruits and vegetable diet it's not good for your body to jump right in and eat regularly again. Simple organic recipes with healthy grains like low gluten quinoa is the perfect choice.




Simple Organic Recipes: Easy Quinoa Recipe with Fresh Organic Vegetables

Ingredients (organic when available):

• 1 cup of organic quinoa (all quinoa is low-gluten quinoa)
• 1 small organic tomato (Roma preferred)
• 1 small jalepeno pepper (organic if available)
• 1 single slice of onion (red onion preferred)
• 1/2 garlic clove
• 1/2 avocado
  
• 1 slice of lime
• 2-3 leaves Romaine lettuce
  
• 2-4 cups of water (distilled preferred)
• Sea salt
• Pepper
• Extra virgin olive oil

Cooked Veggie Mix Procedure:

1. Chop jalepeno pepper and onion slice into small pieces
2. Crush or chop garlic clove into as small of pieces as possible.
   
3. Mix garlic, jalepeno, and onion together

Easy Quinoa Recipe Procedure:

1. Dry roast 1 cup of quinoa in sauce pan over medium heat. Stir continuously. Low gluten quinoa shells will "pop" open. This is normal. Roast for 2-3 minutes after the first pop.
2. After dry roast quinoa, add 2-3 cups of water.
3. Boil until water level is low, stirring occasionally
4. Add more water and jalepeno-garlic-onion mix. Cover
5. Simmer 10-15 minutes or until quinoa soft
6. When quinoa is soft, add a little more water and add salt, pepper, and 1-2 teaspoons olive oil. Add basil if desired.
7. Simmer until quinoa soft and mixed with vegetables. Quinoa will take on vegetable, salt, and olive oil taste.

Fresh Vegetable & Serving Procedure

1. Dice tomato and put on plate cold and fresh
2. Smash avacado adding sea salt and pepper. Place on plate as shown picture
3. Place fresh lime slice on plate
4. Cut or tear romaine lettuce and add to place, or put full leaves on separate plate
5. Add quinoa to plate
   
6. Compliment with any desired fresh fruit (grapes, raspberries, and cut up fresh jalepeno peppers shown in photo)

Eating

Squeeze lime over quinoa as desired. Quinoa, avocado, and tomato may be wrapped up in romaine lettuce and eaten like a burrito, or else cut up pieces of lettuce on top will be easier to eat with a spoon or fork.

This recipe serves two.

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Quick organic recipes like this easy quinoa recipes provide a good stepping stone into or out of a fast or detoxification. You're still getting fresh vegetables with the lettuce, tomato, and avacado. You're getting more veggies in the veggie mix. Quinoa provides several nutrients, and while not recommended during a juice fast, is digested fairly easily by the body