Breakfast Quinoa
Feb. 9th, 2022 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThere was a short-lived restaurant downtown that offered quinoa breakfast bowls as one of their breakfast choices. I don't remember everything that went into it, but I recall that it was very good.
In the years since the place closed, I've been intending to try making my own variations on the theme, but it's only recently that I've finally started making the effort.
This morning's fare is simpler than the last one I made, but I think it's a bit better overall. I started by pouring just over a cup of boiling water over some dried oyster mushrooms to reconstitute them. I let them soak while I wandered off with a coffee. When I returned, I poured the warm liquid into a small saucepan and stirred in a bit of beef bullion. I cranked on the flame and added ½ cup of quinoa.
Whilst that cooked, I added some butter to a small, nonstick pan and tossed in ¼ of a minced red onion along with the white end of a scallion. I emptied the reconstituted mushrooms out of the sieve and replaced them with some frozen peas which I ran under hot water long enough to thaw and warm them slightly.
By now the onions were transparent, and the quinoa was nearly done, so I upended the frying pan into the quinoa pot and poured in the warmed peas before covering it again to finish cooking. I added a bit more butter to the pan and cracked in two eggs. I seasoned them with a dash of potassium chloride and chipotle powder before covering them with a lid and letting them cook until the whites were set.
Finally, I stirred together the quinoa mixture and poured it into a bowl. I slid the eggs out of the pan on top - artfully breaking one of the yolks in the process. Finally, I topped it with the oyster mushrooms, scallion greens, and some black sesame seeds. Prognosis: delicious.
atara can correct me if I remember wrong, but this bowl that I've been using lately is from a set that we got as part of a door prize at one of her (former) employer's Christmas parties (or we won it at a wedding social, or it was a Christmas present from one of her siblings). In any event, I just know that it's not something we purchased. But it's a nice set of dishes, and I keep meaning to use it more.
In any event, I started using this bowl because it's a bit shallower than our other bowls, which helps me to limit my portion sizes.
In the years since the place closed, I've been intending to try making my own variations on the theme, but it's only recently that I've finally started making the effort.
This morning's fare is simpler than the last one I made, but I think it's a bit better overall. I started by pouring just over a cup of boiling water over some dried oyster mushrooms to reconstitute them. I let them soak while I wandered off with a coffee. When I returned, I poured the warm liquid into a small saucepan and stirred in a bit of beef bullion. I cranked on the flame and added ½ cup of quinoa.
Whilst that cooked, I added some butter to a small, nonstick pan and tossed in ¼ of a minced red onion along with the white end of a scallion. I emptied the reconstituted mushrooms out of the sieve and replaced them with some frozen peas which I ran under hot water long enough to thaw and warm them slightly.
By now the onions were transparent, and the quinoa was nearly done, so I upended the frying pan into the quinoa pot and poured in the warmed peas before covering it again to finish cooking. I added a bit more butter to the pan and cracked in two eggs. I seasoned them with a dash of potassium chloride and chipotle powder before covering them with a lid and letting them cook until the whites were set.
Finally, I stirred together the quinoa mixture and poured it into a bowl. I slid the eggs out of the pan on top - artfully breaking one of the yolks in the process. Finally, I topped it with the oyster mushrooms, scallion greens, and some black sesame seeds. Prognosis: delicious.
atara can correct me if I remember wrong, but this bowl that I've been using lately is from a set that we got as part of a door prize at one of her (former) employer's Christmas parties (or we won it at a wedding social, or it was a Christmas present from one of her siblings). In any event, I just know that it's not something we purchased. But it's a nice set of dishes, and I keep meaning to use it more. In any event, I started using this bowl because it's a bit shallower than our other bowls, which helps me to limit my portion sizes.
