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Mexican Quinoa and Beans with Pico de Gallo

[heart_this] · Jul 13, 2011 · 16 Comments

Mexican Quinoa and Beans with Pico de Gallo

Mexican quinoa with beans topped with a fresh pico de gallo salsa makes for a tasty and healthy light meal.

While I was enjoying my first batch of Mexican quinoa as a side dish I was thinking that it would also make for a great main dish if you bulked it up a bit. One thing that I commonly like to do with quinoa is to combine it with beans and the combination of the two gives any meatless dish a bunch of protein. I figured that mixing some black beans or kidney beans into the Mexican quinoa near the end of cooking it would be a nice and simple way to do it. Although things were sounding good already I was thinking, why stop there when you could top it all off with with some salsa or a freshly home made pico de gallo ? I was perfectly satisfied with things like this but some crumbled queso fresco would also be nice on top.

Mexican Quinoa and Beans with Pico de Gallo

Mexican Quinoa and Beans with Pico de Gallo

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 40 minutes Servings: 4

Mexican quinoa with beans topped with a fresh pico de gallo salsa makes for a tasty and healthy light meal.

ingredients
  • 1 batch Mexican quinoa, warm
  • 1 (14 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed (or 1 1/2 cups cooked beans, from 1/2 cup dry)
  • 1 batch pico de gallo
  • 1 handful queso fresco or feta, crumbled (optional)
directions
  1. Mix the Mexican quinoa into the beans and serve topped with pico de gallo topped with crumbled queso fresco.
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6 Ingredients, Food, Main Course, Mexican, One-Pan, One-Pot, Quinoa, Recipe, Vegetarian

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Comments

  1. Bev Weidner says

    July 14, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    Looks like we were both craving black quinoa today!

    http://bevcooks.com/2011/07/indian-spiced-yellow-wax-beans-with-black-quinoa/

    I'm going the Mexican route next time!

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  2. Kelly's Kitchen says

    July 15, 2011 at 3:31 am

    Quinoa is one of my favorite dishes. I've never considered taking this route- looks absolutely delicious! Can't wait to try it out!

    Reply
  3. Heidi @ Food Doodles says

    July 15, 2011 at 4:15 am

    Looks delicious! Love the pico de gallo, I can't get enough of that stuff when I make it. I actually just posted a recipe of yours today(tex-mex corn fritters?) that I made all last summer and just wanted to say thank you because I love it 😀

    Reply
  4. nhlgeezer says

    July 15, 2011 at 5:21 am

    Kevin, I've started a similar blog to this one. I know it's got a super long way to go. Do you have any pointers or advise you can give me so I might have a succesful blog one day? Thanks! http://whatiscookingnow.blogspot.com

    Reply
  5. Rosa's Yummy Yums says

    July 15, 2011 at 6:22 am

    Very healthy and so enjoyable!

    Cheers,

    Rosa

    Reply
  6. Dawn says

    July 15, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    Hmm…I didn't think you could improve on the Mexican Quinoa but this might just be. Printing this one for next week too.

    Reply
  7. Kristy Lynn says

    July 15, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    you know, whenever my bloglovin roll comes up i can always tell what your recipes are before i even look at the source (yes, i look at the pictures first)… you have a real "brand" – and i mean that in a good way.

    this looks great, as always.

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  8. Inside a British Mum's Kitchen says

    July 16, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    Quinoa is like a secret weapon – really good for you and delicious. Served like this it would be a winner!
    Mary

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  9. miri leigh says

    July 16, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    Great healthy recipe……love pico de gallo! Thanks for posting.

    Reply
  10. Pam says

    July 16, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    This looks quite delicious. Pico de gallo is among my all-time favorite foods (so long as there is a lot of cilantro in it!). Your combination of the quinoa and beans with the pico de gallo looks unbeatable. Thanks.

    Reply
  11. Jan says

    July 17, 2011 at 6:37 am

    Love it – looks delish!

    Reply
  12. Fresh Garden says

    July 18, 2011 at 11:16 am

    Wow! Wonderful!
    Delightful and yummy!

    Reply
  13. homegrown countrygirl says

    July 19, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    Kevin, Great idea! Thank you for sharing this!

    Reply
  14. vanillasugar says

    July 20, 2011 at 1:46 am

    i've just started liking quinoa. i always thought it was crappy tasting but it was not. i like to kick it up a few notches with add in's just like this. i did a stir fry once with eggs and Asian spices–very good.

    Reply
  15. Nicole says

    July 21, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    That looks really nice! Quinoa is so healthy too.

    Reply
  16. Anonymous says

    April 26, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    I love quinoa, but even the recipe is very Mexican, the quinoa is not, it is from the Andean countries like, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.

    Reply

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