Quinoa is the seed of a South American plant, used as a grain. It is highly nutritional because it contains a complete protein, but requires processing before eating to rinse a bitter coating off the seed.
Quinoa
Quinoa Flakes
Quinoa that has been processed just like rolled oats, by steaming then rolling. It’s mainly used like oatmeal in hot cereals, but there’s no reason you couldn’t use it, like rolled oats, in cookies, squares and as an accent to breads and rolls. Cooking Tips The flakes will have been rinsed very well during processing…
Quinoa Flour
Quinoa flour is made from ground, whole quinoa. It ends up with a creamy colour. It is very expensive. Cooking Tips To try it in baked good recipes, you can replace up to ½ of the flour with quinoa flour. It is higher in fat than wheat flours such as all-purpose or plain, so it…