EASY TOMATO & BASIL QUINOA RISOTTO – GF, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN OPTION

Quinoa is back in my life and I think it’s here to stay. I haven’t made any recipe with quinoa for a looooong time now, so I’m very excited to share this one with you. It’s so simple, but soooo good. Something like a risotto, but not really. Because it’s not rice and because you don’t have to stir until you get old and your hair gets grey (which wouldn’t really affect me – mine is grey since I was 17).

The best part is: you don’t have to worry someone’s gonna make you cry on Masterchef. Now, I don’t know if you ever watched Masterchef, but for a while I was OBSESSED with that freakin’ show. Even though everything is obviously very very very VERY staged.

I was watching it without blinking, my heart beating really fast, wondering what’s gonna happen, even though it was obvious: nothing. Nothing’s gonna happen. But, um…during the dreaded pressure test? After all it’s a DREADED pressure test??

Ingredients

• 1 cup cooked quinoa
• 4 fresh tomatoes, small to medium-sized
• 3 sun dried tomatoes, soaked for 30min
• 1-2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 small zucchini or 1/2 large
• handful basil
• handful arugula
• 1 garlic clove
• Optional
• some mozzarella
• some parmesan

Instructions

1. For tomato sauce: Blend 2 fresh tomatoes with the sundried tomatoes (soaked before), basil and garlic. I used a hand blender for this step, but you can use any food processor you have available.
2. Chop the other two fresh tomatoes and zucchini.
3. .........................................

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