To think that quinoa is revolting?

[tobysmum77]

Perhaps I'm missing something I tried it once. Horrible, chewy, gritty stuff with a funny aftertaste. I am not a fussy rate btw in general.

I just keep reading about it on mn so do people actually like it?

Yes but only when other people have prepared it with amazing dressings and veggies! When I have cooked it it is horrible!

No. I grew it once, and couldn't bring myself to eat it. Horrid little fishy eye things. Bleurgh.

I love it!

Gritty and chewy? Perhaps you didnt cook it for long enough?

I like it. I buy the sachets of ready-cooked red and white quinoa and use it as a base for a chopped and dressed salad to take to work. It also adds a lovely texture to cauliflower cheese.

It would taste a bit odd and pointless on its own.

Huzzah! We haven't had a keen-wah thread for years!
You could weave it into a wnaky basket...

I love it. It must be prepared properly though with lots of tasty veggies.

You haven't cooked the quinoa right. It's fairly like couscous.
(don't think I've had quinoa in at least 22 yrs, wow).
Millet has a weird taste, I couldn't warm to it at all although okay if used like poppy seeds in cakes.

On a more practical note I used it to thicken porridge or stewed fruit when weaning babies.
I don't eat it myself.

It's like boiled toenails, whether I've cooked it or bought it ready cooked.

Isn't it bad form to eat quinoa now anyway, as it's become such a thing in affluent countries that the supply is running short for people where it's grown who rely on it? (vague memory of something I read, probably in the Guardian)

Have you tried it toasted and sprinkled on stuff? That's pretty nice!

ok so I was getting ready to give it another go but the ethical argument has finally persuaded me to not bother. Thanks all. I didn't actually cook it, it was apparently ready-cooked .

I love the stuff! But I can see why it's not always viewed the same

It doesn't really taste of anything to me but it's palatable as a base, the cafe at my gym do it with chilli flavouring, grilled chicken and edamame beans and I quite like it.

YABU. It's lovely.

I love it. Never cooked it properly though, I've always bought the ready to eat sachets. And it needs some strong flavours with it as it's quite bland on its own.

YABU.

If you do cook it yourself then very important to rinse it in cold water first, otherwise it does have a bitter aftertaste.

It is very healthy for a grain though!

I've never tasted it. It looks okay in prepared salads in supermarkets but I've never really thought to buy any.

YANBU. I usually like that sort of thing, but quinoa left me cold.

I love it with, tragically, houmous. I'm just a sauntering stereotype.

YANBU, boiled toemails is an excellent description of it.

Plus now we know that there is a shortage of it so importing it here deprives the people who actually need to eat it because they don't have other sources of protein, you can come over all righteous about not eating eat.

And hopefully the minging stuff will disappear.

Don't even know what it is.

It is too expensive these days and the west eating it has caused people in Ecuador who lived of it for hundreds of years to not afford it anymore :(

I didn't like it until I tried this recipe iowagirleats.com/2012/03/26/my-kind-of-meal-thai-fried-quinoa/ now I think it's amazing.

First time I tried at home I hated it.
Then a couple of months ago there was a thread about it on MN.

You have to rinse it several times and follow the cooking instructions. It's a bit like bulgar wheat or cous cous where the important thing is what you put it with. M and S do a quinoa with feta cheese which is fantastic.