Budget recipes with quinoa please

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Can anyone give me an idea recipes that use quinoa please. Another family member bought a couple of bags and they're still in the cupboard. Ideally something veggie, but I do have white fish, smoked haddock, prawns and tinned tuna.

There’s a gorgeous mushroom and leek quinoa ‘risotto’ on the Delicious magazine website. It uses white wine, but I use white wine stock pots from Tesco, which work out at less about 40p each.

It's nice as part of a salad base with usual salad stuff, bit of pesto, feta, whatever you have

Make a tabbouleh salad with it. Google the recipe, and substitute in the quinoa for the cous cous.

DS' favourite is quinoa cooked with vegetable stock and butter, then served with roasted vegetables - often cauliflower, red peppers and carrot seasoned with garam masala or curry powder. It's a quick, cheap
weekday dinner.

(Sometimes we crumble feta over the top too.)

Cook well rinsed quinoa with a glug of olive oil, salt and pepper.
Separately stir fry broccoli, mushroom, babycorn, carrots etc in olive oil seasoned with salt and pepper.
Serve quinoa with the stir fried veg piled on top, with natural yoghurt on the side.

I make this a lot. It freezes well and tastes lovely. Much nicer that it sounds and very filling too. I sometimes add paneer.

www.veganricha.com/chickpea-lentil-quinoa-spinach-stew/

www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/black-bean-and-quinoa-enchilada-bake/

This is good and freezes well although not as budget as some vegetarian recipes.