In this recipe and for the other quinoa recipes that I posted earlier I have been using white quinoa that I purchased from COSTCO. The speciality of this is that the quinoa is pre washed which saves our time. If you are looking to purchase it click on the link below:
You can checkout my other quinoa recipes below:
- Quinoa kheer
- Quinoa idli
- Quinoa dosa
- Quinoa upma
- Quino adai
- Lemon Quinoa
- Quinoa halwa
- Quinoa Pulao
- Quinoa kesari
- Curd quinoa
- Tomato quinoa upma
- Quinoa Uttapam
- Quinoa idli dosa batter
- Methi quinoa
- Tomato quinoa bath
- Quinoa fried rice
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- 1. Quinoa – ½ cup
- 2. Water – ½ cup (instant pot)/ 1 ¾½ cup (cooker)
- 3. Rasam – 3 cups
- 4. Ghee – 1 tsp
- * 1 cup = 235 ml
- Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves, ground powder (peppercorn jeera, garlic), rasam powder and salt. Saute well until tomatoes get little soft. Now add ½ cup of thick tamarind extract and 2 ½ cups of water to it. Top it with chopped cilantro. Put the flame in medium then close the pot. When froth starts to form and when rasam boils a bit switch off the flame.
- Wash and soak quinoa in water for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes drain the water and keep the quinoa side.
- Heat a pan add soaked quinoa along with 1 ½ cups of water. We want quinoa to be mushy. . Allow it to cook well with lid on in medium flame. This should take about 8 to 10 minutes. When the quinoa looks cooked put off the flame and keep it aside.
- In a bowl add cooked quinoa when it is hot, mash it well either with a spoon/ masher. Then add desired quantity of rasam and ghee to cooked quinoa. Mix well until combined. Serve it hot with pickle, potato roast or papad.
- 1.Soaking quinoa gives the sam quinoa a mushy texture.
- 2. I have used pepper rasam for this recipe as the climate is cold now, but you can add any favorite rasam of your choice
How to make Rasam quinoa with step by step images

- Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves, ground powder, rasam powder and salt. Saute well until tomatoes get little soft. Now add ½ cup of thick tamarind extract and 2 ½ cups of water to it. Top it with chopped cilantro. Put the flame in medium then close the pot. When froth starts to form and when rasam boils a bit switch off the flame.
- Wash and soak quinoa in water for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes drain the water and keep the quinoa side. Heat a pan add soaked quinoa along with 1 ½ cups of water. We want quinoa to be mushy. Allow it to cook well with lid on in medium flame. This should take about 8 to 10 minutes. When the quinoa looks cooked put off the flame and keep it aside.
- In a bowl add cooked quinoa when it is hot, mash it well either with a spoon/ masher. Then add desired quantity of rasam and ghee to cooked quinoa. Mix well until combined. Serve it hot with pickle, potato roast or papad.
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