Recipe for Quinoa Side Dish with Pine Nuts, Green Onions, and Cilantro

This Quinoa Side Dish has extra flavor from Pine Nuts, Green Onions, and Cilantro

How do you feel about quinoa?  It's something I was slow to warm up to, and for a long time I didn't think I'd ever be much of a quinoa fan.  Then last summer I made Quinoa Salad with Avocado, Radishes, Cucumbers, and Cumin-Lime Vinaigrette, followed by Quinoa Tabbouleh Salad, and I was surprised to discover how much I liked it.  This Quinoa Side Dish with Pine Nuts, Green Onions, and Cilantro may be my favorite quinoa recipe yet.  The quinoa is sauteed in oil for a few minutes before it's cooked in chicken or vegetable stock, and then a generous amount of toasted pine nuts and chopped green onion and a little chopped cilantro is stirred in before it's eaten warm.  If you're not a cilantro lover, I think chopped flat-leaf parsley could also be used here.  And if you haven't had quinoa yet, this is a recipe you should definitely try.

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