Quinoa rice pilau with dill & roasted tomatoes

Quinoa rice pilau with dill & roasted tomatoes

Whip up a quinoa rice marvel in minutes - it's superhealthy and counts as 1 of 5-a-day

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 4 - 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Super healthy

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Put the tomatoes on a baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil and some seasoning. Roast for 15 mins, remove and set aside.
  2. Heat the remaining olive oil in a large pan. Add the onion, celery, cumin and garlic, then season to taste. Fry on a medium heat for 10 mins until golden. Add the rice, quinoa, dill and stock. Cover with a lid and cook for 12-15 mins or until the rice is soft. Add the tomatoes and pine nuts, and gently stir through. Serve with white fish or a green salad.

412 kcalories, protein 11g, carbohydrate 45g, fat 22 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 2g, sugar 7g, salt 0.54 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2006.

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  • 11 September 2012

    Margaret-S commented on this recipe

    Lovely recipe, very easy and will be cooking it again.

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  • 10 November 2012

    lulujersey commented on this recipe

    This dish is amazing and easy. I do this when I'm showing off to friends as I can cook this and host very easily. This is a form favourite it house.

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  • 20 March 2013

    marta rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Excellent recipe, everyone loved it! Skipped both celery and cumin (can't stand either) and used chives, as I had no dill... so I suppose it's also very flexible. I think the pilau method it what makes this recipe, which lends itself to many variations. I've also tried it with more chickpeas and tomatoes as a light meal, no fish, and it was great.

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  • 03 April 2013

    CSCollins rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    1st attempt at cooking quinoa and I was pleasantly surprised. I was a bit confused as to whether I needed to cook the quinoa first or add it in raw with the rice as the packet seemed to say 20mins cooking time for the quinoa rather than 12-15mins in this recipe. Anyway, added it raw with the rice but found the cooking time in general to be longer for both the white basmati & quinoa. Left out the celery and substituted coriander for dill and was really pleased at this dish and will definitely repeat again. Really lovely flavours and extremely nice with griddled salmon.

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 4 - 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Super healthy

Full of iron and vitamin C

Ingredients

  • 250g cherry tomatoes , halved
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion , thinly sliced
  • 3 sticks celery , sliced
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 garlic cloves , finely chopped
  • 100g basmati rice (brown or white)
  • 140g quinoa
  • 2 x 20g packs dill , chopped
  • 500ml chicken or vegetable stock (from a cube is fine)
  • 50g pine nuts , toasted
  • white fish, such as sea bass , to serve
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412 kcalories, protein 11g, carbohydrate 45g, fat 22 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 2g, sugar 7g, salt 0.54 g

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