Cookbook Challenge, Week 9: Wild Rice & Quinoa Muffins

[rebeccafrog]

The Week 9 Cookbook Challenge was to make a breakfast bread-type thing. Specifically, one from the breads & muffins chapter of Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café, if you have it. I chose this assignment largely because I have some quinoa, and came across this recipe for Wild Rice & Quinoa Muffins. As it happens, I also have a package of pre-cooked wild

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[stoloniferous]

Sounds absolutely delicious, but best cooked in large batches! The one time I cooked quinoa I found it to be a real pain - particularly cleaning out the grit. Ultimately it tasted like couscous, but took a lot more work.

[rebeccafrog]

Really? I didn't find it to be much trouble at all. I rinsed the quinoa a few times, like rice, brought it to a boil, reduced the heat, ignored it for 20 minutes or so. Have you tried cooking quinoa in your rice cooker? I bet that would work, since the process is the same. Yay! Recipe Zaar confirms that you can make quinoa in a rice cooker.

[stoloniferous]

My quinoa had grit in it that was amazingly tough to rinse out. Yours was less foilsome, I take it? Also, my recipe called for soaking before cooking. Rice cooker, you say?

[rebeccafrog]

Mine seemed relatively clean, and none of the recipes I've seen call for soaking it before cooking. Try a different brand next time, see if it has less grit. Good luck!