{"id":4936,"date":"2011-01-02T18:46:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2015-12-04T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T03:15:20","slug":"low-calorie-quinoa-sweet-potato-mushrooms-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/low-calorie-quinoa-sweet-potato-mushrooms-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinoa Sweet Potato & Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ingredients:<\/strong>
\n3 cups
\nquinoa (red and white mix)
\n6 cups water
\n1 whole
\nsweet potato, peeled & diced into \u00bd inch cubes
\n1 half red onion, thinly sliced
\n1 tbsp garlic salt
\n1 tbsp olive oil
\n2 cups mushrooms (oyster or button)
\n1 tbsp rosemary, chopped
\n2 cups baby beet greens
\n8 oz chevre
\nDirections:<\/strong> Add water and quinoa to rice cooker and turn on. Quinoa is ready when water is fully evaporated. Coat sweet potatoes with half cup of balsamic dressing and 1 tbsp of garlic salt. Lay out on half of a sheet pan. Bake for 15 minutes at 400\u00b0F. Sweet potatoes should be browned and crispy. Mix onions and mushrooms with 2 tbsp of oil and rosemary. Saut\u00e9 in large skillet over medium fire for 10-12 minutes. Final mushrooms and onions should be crispy and darkened. Assemble cooked sweet potatoes, mushroom mixture into quinoa. Mix in goat cheese, garlic salt and 1 tbsp of olive oil. When fully mixed, add baby beet greens on top.<\/p>\n

Balsamic Yogurt Dressing ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00bd cup<\/td>\nplain yogurt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bd cup<\/td>\ncanola oil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3 tsp<\/td>\nbalsamic vinegar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 tsp<\/td>\nfreshly squeezed lemon juice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bd tsp<\/td>\nDijon mustard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bd tsp<\/td>\nsea salt (or to taste)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bc tsp<\/td>\nfreshly ground black pepper (or to taste)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Directions for dressings:<\/strong> Place all ingredients in a bowl and whisk vigorously to combine. The mixture may separate as it stands; whisk before serving to restore consistency. And make your life easy with the Panasonic SR-TEG10 5-cup rice cooker, it not only cooks rice in half the time, but it is also a steamer. \u00a0This rice cooker is available at Amazon.com at a discounted price. Check out the link below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ingredients: 3 cups quinoa (red and white mix) 6 cups water 1 whole sweet potato, peeled & diced into \u00bd inch cubes 1 half red onion, thinly sliced 1 tbsp garlic salt 1 tbsp olive oil 2 cups mushrooms (oyster or button) 1 tbsp rosemary, chopped 2 cups baby beet greens 8 oz chevre Directions: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,51,6],"tags":[524,365,523,439],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weigh-less-dinner-recipes","category-lowcaloriequinoarecipes","category-healthy-recipes","tag-panasonic-sr-teg10-5-cup-rice-cooker","tag-quinoa-benefits","tag-quinoa-recipes","tag-superfoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}