What is the name of this food I tried, which only grows in the high mountains and looks like couscous?!
I was on a trip and ate some kind of grain (or at least I think it was) and when it was cooked it looked similar to couscous, except it had little white things in it. I heard the name, it was exotic and I'm pretty sure it had a q in it. I remember the cook told me it would only grow in the high mountains of South America. Maybe it wasn't South America and it was somewhere else, but I think that's what he said. Any ideas?
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I agree with the poster who said Quinoa (Keen-Wah)- if the white things kind of curled out from the seed when cooked. The grain originated in the Andes, has a complete amino acid profile, and nowadays is available in almost every large chain grocery store in the US.
Coursework on Inca culture.
Have a box of Quinoa in my cupboard ;)
Quinoa ??
here are the images of it
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&clien…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa
It was ground weevils. The guy was kidding you.