Quinoa Veggie “Fried Rice”
Quinoa is a wonderful substitute in this protein-packed veggie “fried rice”!
Quinoa is one of my favorite ingredients ever.
It has so many amazing health benefits with it’s abundance of protein, unsaturated fats and essential vitamins and minerals, and it even helps to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer (according to Eat to Defeat).
Plus, I love the taste of it! It worked so well in this “fried rice” dish, melding so beautifully together with all the veggies. Plus, the drizzled Sriracha was just the icing on the cake!
So here’s how you make this:
We’ll start by sweating out some garlic and onion for about 5 minutes or so.
Then we’ll add in our mushrooms, broccoli and zucchini, letting them get nice and tender.
Next goes in the corn, peas, carrots and quinoa.
Once that’s heated through, we’ll stir in the ginger and soy sauce.
And finally, we’ll add in the green onions and diced eggs (for the diced eggs, you can just fry 2 beaten eggs over low heat until completely cooked through).
Go ahead and serve immediately with Sriracha – the most important ingredient of all!
Quinoa Veggie “Fried Rice”
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 small onion, diced
- 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
- 1 head broccoli, cut into florets
- 1 zucchini, chopped
- ½ cup frozen corn
- ½ cup frozen peas
- 2 carrots, peeled and grated
- 3 cups cooked quinoa
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 green onions, sliced
- Sriracha, for serving
Instructions
- Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a medium skillet over low heat. Add eggs and fry until cooked through, about 2-3 minutes per side, flipping only once. Let cool before dicing into small pieces.
- Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet or wok over medium high heat. Add garlic and onion, and cook, stirring often, until onions have become translucent, about 4-5 minutes.
- Add mushrooms, broccoli and zucchini. Cook, stirring constantly, until vegetables are tender, about 3-4 minutes.
- Add corn, peas, carrots and quinoa. Cook, stirring constantly, until heated through, about 1-2 minutes.
- Add ginger and soy sauce, and gently toss to combine. Cook, stirring constantly, until heated through, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in green onions and eggs.
- Serve immediately, drizzled with Sriracha, if desired.
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I made this today and it was delicious! I’ll be making this recipe again. Thank you for sharing your recipe 🙂
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I just have to say that I’ve been making this recipe all summer. I am addicted to it! Everyone that has tried it loves it as well. Thank you so much! It’s delicious and healthy. I have pinned many of your recipes and all are great. Thanks again!
I made this tonight (minus the corn due to a food allergy of my son) — it was great! Thanks for sharing it.
I had pinned this recipe for quinoa-veggie-fried rice a while ago. I just made it tonight and it was even better than I imagined! Thank you so much. I will be making this often.
Did you use a wok or some other kind of pot/pan to cook all of this in? Looks delicious, thanks!
Yes, I used a skillet for this.
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So so yummy!! I forgot to buy a zuichinni and peas….and I didn’t use fresh ginger :/ But still turned out really, really good! I added some water to compensate for the missing zuichinni and frozen peas. Delicious!!
I made this alongside your sesame ginger salmon. I actually googled the recipes separately and didn’t realize at first they were both from the same blog. 🙂 I omitted the corn and peas but kept everything else the same. Great recipe!
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I can’t wait to try this recipe! I “found” you through Pinterest and every recipe I’ve made from your website has been, well…. Damn Delicious! Pardon the bad humor! 🙂 Your recipes are always easy to follow and the photos are inspiring! I’m trying to adopt the “clean eating” philosophy, especially because my husband is a triathlete, my daughter is a grad student in Nutrition, I am fighting those nasty change of life issues, and am watching my Dad’s rapid physical deterioration. Your recipes easily adapt to clean eating. Keep experimenting and posting!
I’ve never used quinoa before. Could this recipe be made and then frozen?
Thank you.
I do not recommend freezing this.
My husband and I really liked this recipe! Thanks for inspiring us to keep adding veggies (there are so many in this!) and for making quinoa more fun, too 🙂
This was insanely delicious! I had to practice serious self control to keep myself from going back for a third serving!
Can’t wait to try this!!
Hi,
I’m not sure if you can answer this but I have some picky eaters in my house that won’t eat onions, mushrooms, or zucchini. Do you think I could just increase the amount of the other veggies? I know the onion adds a lot of flavour so I was thinking of using onion powder
Looks amazing!!!
I honestly cannot speak for how much this will change in taste/texture of the dish but by all means, feel free to adjust the amount of veggies, to taste, to accommodate your picky eaters.
Can you give me the best or quickest way to cook just the quinoa. I always find recipes with quinoa but it needs to be cooked first. So I need to learn how to cook it I guess and then just have some in the fridge. Please help!!
Danielle, the best/quickest/easiest way to cook quinoa is using the directions on the back of the quinoa package. Hope that helps!
You should specify that you need to cook the quinoa before because I definitely didn’t do that.
Whitney, it’s actually specified in the ingredients as it states “3 cups COOKED quinoa”. I recommend carefully reading through the ingredients first before preparing the dish. Hope that helps!
It is specified in the ingredients list, however, its lacking in the preparation instruction. This can be confusing even to the most ‘seasoned’ cooks.
I love finding new quinoa recipes, and can’t wait to try this one out – it looks great with all of the veggies! Thanks for sharing.
Made this tonight and served it with grilled chicken and it is to die for!! Thank you so much! 😉