How to cook quinoa in a rice cooker (Perfect quinoa every time!)

Who doesn't love perfectly fluffy quinoa? With a rice cooker, you can easily cook fluffy quinoa in no time. This post will show you how to prepare, cook, and season quinoa using a rice cooker.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword rice cooker quinoa

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Servings

Calories 165kcal

Author Sravanthi Chanda

Equipment

Rice cooker

Ingredients

1 cup quinoa
2 cups water
¼ teaspoon salt optional
1 teaspoon oil optional

Instructions

Wash the quinoa couple of times by rubbing it with your hands to remove the outer coat of quinoa call saponins.
Drain entire water from quinoa and keep it aside. Using a fine-mesh strainer will make the process easy.
Coat the rice cooker inner pot with a teaspoon of oil.
Add drained quinoa, water, and salt.
Cover it with its lid and turn on the rice cooker. If the rice cooker has settings, select the "White rice" option. Otherwise, start the cook mode.
Once it is done, wait for few minutes and fluff it up with a fork, and the quinoa is ready to use.

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