Quinoa With Chorizo

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup chorizo sausage, diced
• 1/2 cup green pepper, diced
• 1/2 cup onion, diced
• 1 tablespoon garlic, chopped
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 cup quinoa
• 2 cups chicken broth

Recipe

• 1 add chorizo to cold sauce pan, bring up to medium high heat, (to render some fat from the sausage) sautee chorizo until it begins to brown, pour off excess fat so that you have about 1tps in the pot.
• 2 add peppers, onion, thyme and garlic and sautee’ with chorizo until it begins to soften.
• 3 in the meantime, rinse quinoa well in a fine mesh strainer.
• 4 add quinoa to the pot with the other ingredients, stir to combine.
• 5 add chicken broth and bring to a boil.
• 6 turn down heat to a simmer and cover. cook covered until quinoa is tender (about 15 minutes).