Here’s a recipe put together by one of my greatest friends, who has a knack for creating new recipes whenever he has a fridge full of food and a kitchen to himself. This week he whipped up a new dish which was DELISH!
He wrote out the recipe and I am passing it on, exactly as he wrote it:
1 cup of quinoa
1 summer squash cut in half lengthwise and then chopped into half circles
1/2 large sweet vidalia onion
Large handful of fresh chopped spinach. (Real spinach, no frozen preserved shit)
1/2 chopped bulb of fennel
1 can of rinsed black beans
3 heads of garlic minced
And my spice mix [his spice mix is: fresh ground black pepper, oregano, sea salt, ground red pepper, paprika, and ground cumin]
- Cook 1 cup of quinoa with 2 cups of water
- stir in 1 can of black beans a few minutes before the quinoa is fully cooked
- in another pan sauté onion, fennel, garlic and spices
- once onions are browned toss in summer squash
- once summer squash is starting to get cooked toss in the spinach
- when everything is cooked toss in the quinoa with the veggies for a few minutes to absorb the flavor
- I ended up dicing an avocado and tossing it on top of the whole mix after I plated it
I have to admit it’s now one of my favorites and it’s really filling
Aside from all the nutritional value of the spinach and summer squash, this dish is also packed with proteins (by way of black beans) and a healthy complex carb (quinoa). Try it out and let me know what you think!
He wrote out the recipe and I am passing it on, exactly as he wrote it:
1 cup of quinoa
1 summer squash cut in half lengthwise and then chopped into half circles
1/2 large sweet vidalia onion
Large handful of fresh chopped spinach. (Real spinach, no frozen preserved shit)
1/2 chopped bulb of fennel
1 can of rinsed black beans
3 heads of garlic minced
And my spice mix [his spice mix is: fresh ground black pepper, oregano, sea salt, ground red pepper, paprika, and ground cumin]
- Cook 1 cup of quinoa with 2 cups of water
- stir in 1 can of black beans a few minutes before the quinoa is fully cooked
- in another pan sauté onion, fennel, garlic and spices
- once onions are browned toss in summer squash
- once summer squash is starting to get cooked toss in the spinach
- when everything is cooked toss in the quinoa with the veggies for a few minutes to absorb the flavor
- I ended up dicing an avocado and tossing it on top of the whole mix after I plated it
I have to admit it’s now one of my favorites and it’s really filling
Aside from all the nutritional value of the spinach and summer squash, this dish is also packed with proteins (by way of black beans) and a healthy complex carb (quinoa). Try it out and let me know what you think!
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