10 Authentic Peruvian Quinoa Recipes

Quinoa is a staple mainstay of Peruvian diet in the highlands, quinoa forms the basis of quick, simple, and inexpensive healthy meals. The 10 recipes we provide are part of our cultural roots and make for comfort food. It doesn´t include recipes made with products derived from quinoa such as flours, pasta, cereal, pops, flakes, and anything else that people are making nowadays. All you need for these quick recipes is pearl quinoa or white quinoa and cook it in the basic traditional way.

Quinoa for us meant a good and filling meal that can be prepared in many ways for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even dessert! This 10 authentic Peruvian quinoa recipes present quinoa as the main ingredient and are as authentic as can be recreated here in Colorado as based on my mom´s recipes that were passed on to her from her mother and so on.