Red quinoa cranberry arugula soup
By: iipfit
Published: Friday, January 2, 2015 - 9:18am

Ingredients




1 cup fresh cranberries
2 cups baby arugula (chopped)
4 cups vegetable broth
1 tbsp. olive oil
½ cup green onions (whites only)
1 tbsp. lemon grass (chopped)
1 cup red quinoa (cooked)
½ tsp salt
1/8 tsp chilli powder
1 tbsp. white sugar
¼ cups unsweetened coconut milk
1 tbsp. greens onion (greens for garnishing)

Preparation

1 1.    Combine cranberries, arugula and vegetable broth in a sauce pan and bring them to boil. 2 2.    Remove the sauce pan from the flame and let stock cool for a while. 3 3.    In the meantime, heat oil in a nonstick pan over medium flame. 4 4.    Add whites of green onion, lemon grass and cook for couple of minutes. 5 5.    The moment you get the aroma of lemon grass add quinoa and sauté well. 6 6.    When the stock cools down blend it smooth. Then strain it. 7 7.    Pour the stock into the pan of quinoa and mix well. 8 8.    Boil for 2 -3 minutes and add salt, chilli powder and sugar. 9 9.    Mix again and after couple of more boils add coconut milk and mix. 10 10.    Turn off the flame, garnish with some greens of the green onions and serve immediately.

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