High Protein Veggie & Coconut Quinoa recipe

Beans, quinoa, zucchini, cauliflower, coconut curry dish

Ingredients
 
1 cup quinoa
Can of organic mixed beans (kidney beans, white beans, Garbanzo beans)
1 can coconut milk
1 can organic corn
Veggie Broth
1 large red onion
1-2 tomatoes
½ head of Cauliflower
2 small zucchini
1 Tbsp Coconut oil
Garlic/ginger
1 tsp Cumin seeds
1 tsp Black mustard seeds
1 tsp Cumin powder
1 tsp Coriander powder
½ tsp Madras curry powder
½ tsp Himalayan salt

Cilantro
Pecans 
Sriracha 

*Note - When taking directions photo I was out of the bean mix so used a can of kidney beans. I was also out of cilantro (which I consider an essential. 
 

Directions

Cook quinoa in a small pan.  Add twice as much water or veggie broth to cook the quinoa. Heat it up on high until it boils, then reduce heat to a simmer and cover for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes turn off heat and keep lid on, it will absorb all remaining liquid. If it seems to dry out before the white dot disappears on the quinoa seeds add a little more water during cooking time.

Heat coconut oil in pan with freshly crushed cumin seeds, black mustard seeds and garlic/ginger.  Add in finely chopped red onion. Cook on medium high heat for a few minutes. When the onions seem to dry out on the pan add the finely cup up tomato and stir in for a couple of minutes. Blend in all the spices well, then add chopped up cauliflower and zucchini. Stir well. When coated and cooked for a few minutes add the can of coconut milk and about a cup of veggie broth on high heat until it boils, then turn down to medium high. Stir and simmer for about 8 minutes, or until veggies are soft to your liking, do not overcook. Turn off heat.  Add chopped up cilantro, cooked quinoa and rinsed canned beans. The heat is enough to heat up the beans, as they’re already cooked if you use canned beans. Let it sit for a few minutes covered.  It’s ready to eat! It’s delicious as a thick dish or with more liquid as a very chunky stew. I like my food spicy so a squeeze of Sriracha sauce perfects the dish for me. Break up some pecans and garnish. 

All ingredients, veggie broth not in photo

Cooking quinoa

Heat coconut oil with green chili, crushed cumin and black mustard seeds

Add in onion and saute for a few minutes

Then add in tomatoes and mix well for a couple of minutes

Add in all spices

Cook until well mixed

Add in Cauliflower and Zucchini

Mix in the can of coconut milk until well blended

Then mix in Vegetable broth

Add as much veggie broth to cover vegetables and cover to let simmer until veggies and tender but not too soft

Quinoa should be ready at this point

Add in beans and corn with the liquid and mix in well

Turn off heat after one minutes

Add in the cooked Quinoa and mix in

Add sriracha and chopped up pecans on top...ready to eat!
(from previous batch other than ingredient photos)

Delicious with chopped up pecans - I added more veggie broth to this portion, don't add more moisture if you prefer it more chunky (from previous batch other than ingredient photos)

Garden update & harvest 7/27/14

7/27/14 -  Chinese 5 color peppers...abundant:)

 7/27/14 - ripening yellow pear tomato

 7/27/14 - tomatoes

 7/27/14 -  Giant Szegedi sweet pepper

 7/27/14 - Mini Red Bell pepper

  7/27/14 - Chinese 5 color hot pepper

  7/27/14 - White Habanero pepper

 7/27/14 - Chocolate Habanero peper

 7/27/14 - looks like the caterpillars did a number on my Dino kale in the last couple days!

 7/27/14 - Pretty...but tragic

 7/27/14 -I could have saved it them to juice, but decided not to fuss with cleaning them.

 7/27/14 -  today's harvest...Giant Black Beauty zucchini, 3 Marketmore cucumbers, 5 Chinese five color peppers, basil, Cossak Pineapple ground cherry tomatoes and yellow pear tomatoes.

 7/27/14 -  Yellow pear tomatoes

 7/27/14 - Giant Black Beauty zucchini...largest yet!  I didn't even remember I had one full sized still growing.

7/27/14 -  Dino kale, Red Russian kale, Curled Scotch kale and lettuce

Garden update & harvest 7/15/14

   7/15/14 - Front view of Garden

   7/15/14 - Transplanted the peas that I germinated at home:)

 7/15/14 - Ahh my fence blew down with the insanely strong winds we've been getting!

  7/15/14 - Mended the fence with duct tape...may look tacky but so worth it! Does the job

  7/15/14 - The needle sharp stickers are in full bloom from my neighbors garden and pressed up against the plastic and my fence...so so glad I put the plastic up!

   7/15/14 - Some garden buddies:)  Grasshopper...never fails to make me jump when it jumps up in front of me! Looks like the wood chips!

   7/15/14 - Ah and lets not forget the spiders! This one was pretty big! I was almost about to wrap it up in the row covers that I disposed of today! Thankfully I spotted it and let it lose in my garden. As much as spiders freak me out I love having them in the garden to eat up other other bugs.

   7/15/14 - Ah not a fan of this...Squash bug eggs. Spend a good amount of time checking each leaf and getting rid of them.  Didn't have the heart to kill the grown ones I found so got rid of them with the weeds!

 7/15/14 -Today just found one full grown squash bug runnin' around.

7/15/14 - They do love squash!

   7/15/14 - Yes another monster zucchini ripe for the pickin!

   7/15/14 - One of the very few spinach plants that produces for me...the rest were eaten all up by garden critters....not that I minded too much.

   7/15/14 - Cucumber plants, doesn't appear too full, but it's given me 11 cucumbers so far, and many yet to come:) Pruned away some of the dead leaves.

   7/15/14 - Most abundant in the Curled Scotch kale...yum!

 7/15/14 - A gardener asked me today what these mysterious plants were lol...they are overgrown lettuce towers! Still yummy, so they get to stay a little longer:p

  

7/15/14 - A view from the other side

   7/15/14 - Yup these guys again...I can't get enough of them ^_^

7/15/14 - Chocolate habanero pepper

   7/15/14 - Yay for hot peppers growing!  Giant Szegedi Sweet pepper

   7/15/14 -  5 color Chinese pepper

   7/15/14 - White habanero pepper...starting to produce

    7/15/14 -1st Row

     7/15/14 - 2nd Row

     7/15/14 - 3rd Row

     7/15/14 - 4th Row

     7/15/14 - 4th Row

     7/15/14 - 3rd Row

     7/15/14 - 2nd Row

     7/15/14 - 1st Row

    7/15/14 - Today's harvest...one giant Black Beauty Zucchini