Southwest Shrimp Quinoa

Over the past few month's I've been trying to eat a lot healthier. One of the things I decided to add to my diet is Quinoa. I never had it before so I looked up a bunch of recipes. Man are there a lot out there. A good amount of the recipes used it in salads cold. I was looking for a one pot hot dinner item. After researching for an hour or so, I merged a few different recipes together and added my twist to it and came up with a Southwest Shrimp Quinoa. The Shrimp can always be replaced with tofu or omitted completely to make it vegetarian. I cook this every few weeks. I also make enough so I have left overs for lunch the next day.

Ingredients

½ lbs Shrimp – chopped into 1/3’s (depending on size)

¼ Red Bell pepper – Large Diced

¼ Green Bell Pepper – Large Diced

¼ Onion – Diced

½ jalapeno – diced

High Temp cooking oil

Juice 1 lime

1 Cup Quinoa

1 ½ Cup water

Hand full Cilantro

Cooking Directions

Heat oil in pan

Add vegi’s and Sautee for 5 minutes

Add in shrimp and lime juice and sauté for 5 mins more on until shrimp turns pink

Remove shrimp

Add in water and bring to a boil

Add in quinoa

Reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for ~20 minutes

Add shrimp back in

Add in cilantro and Fluff everything together

Serve hot.