Thursday, March 5, 2015

indian quinoa chickpea stir fry

I am following Oh My Veggies, and loving the recipes. Following a link on the potluck section of the blog, I found this amazingly simple and delicious one pot supper:


It's from another simply splendid food blog, Eat Happy Eat Healthy. I cooked it the other night and loved its super warm spicy-homey flavor. Alex was home, so I also cooked up some frozen parathas from the Indian grocery, to eat with it. They are not the healthiest food, but they are delicious. I was a bit surprised Alex liked it so much. He's sometimes suspicious of spicy things. This recipe isn't so much mouth-flaming as it is full-full-full-flavoured spicy. It uses chili, cumin, coriander, cayenne - hmm, an alliterative spice list. It's good! When Andrew came home from work late, the house must have smelled of spices even outside the front door. I think the yumminess captivated him, because he came in, heated up some leftovers and rolled them up in a tortilla. He said that was good too, and definitely healthier than a paratha. (That's my comment, not his.)

The recipe takes just a few minutes to put together and uses ingredients we have in our pantry almost all the time. I didn't have spinach so I used kale, and it was good.

Cook something full-full-full-flavoured soon. Serve it in a tortilla. Serve it with a paratha. Serve it in a big beautiful bowl, made by someone you love.