Quinoa w/ Sweet Potatoes, Spinach, & Garlic
This Spinach Quinoa consists of sweet potatoes, garlic, tamari, rice vinegar, and a mix of cumin, coriander, cloves, smoked paprika, ginger, salt, and pepper
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato diced
- 3/4 c. spinach chopped
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 c. white quinoa
- 3 c. water
- 1/4 c. tamari or soy sauce of choice
- 1/4 c. rice vinegar
- dash salt
- dash pepper
- dash cumin
- dash coriander
- dash cloves
- dash smoked paprika
- dash ginger
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a rice cooker.I'll usually start with the larger ingredients, like sweet potatoes, and end with the spices on top. But this is more or less a matter of personal preference. Everything will eventually cook in!
- Press the cook button on the rice cooker. While quinoa is not rice, it does cook the same and oftentimes better than rice in a rice cooker. It typically takes 30-45 minutes.
- When the quinoa is fully cooked, fluff with a wooden spoon and serve.Do not use a fork or other metal utensil to fluff! It will scratch off the nonstick surface on the rice cooker. This will leach Teflon into your food and cause future dishes to stick to the bottom.
Tips, Tricks, & Notes
- While quinoa is not rice, it does cook the same and oftentimes better than rice in a rice cooker. For more tips and tricks to rice cooker quinoa, check out my article on The Fundamentals of Making Quinoa, including a stovetop version if you don't have or don't want to use a rice cooker.