Spicy Chicken & Quinoa

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Ingredients

8 portion(s)

400 grams Mixed Quinoa, Plain coloured quinoa is ok too
120 grams Cashews
500 grams chicken thigh, Sliced into 2cm pieces
120 grams snowpeas, Ends trimmed
250 grams bean sprouts
3 spring onions, finely sliced
1/2 teaspoon mixed peppercorns, plain dried peppercorns are ok too
1/2 teaspoon salt
2cm piece ginger, chopped into 'coins'
4 cloves Peeled garlic
130 grams tamari, Soy is ok too
2 Chillis
20 grams sesame oil
25 grams rice wine vinegar
4 tablespoons tahini
juice of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon Rapadura, Raw or other sugar is ok too

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6

10min

Preparation 10min

Baking/Cooking
7

easy

Preparation
8
- Recipe is created for
  TM 31
9
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Recipe's preparation

Dish prep

Place Cashews in dry TM bowl and turbo "Closed lid" 3 or 4 times until coarsley chopped. Remove from bowl and set aside.

Place peppercorns to TM bowl and Mill 10 seconds / speed 9.

Add salt, ginger, garlic & chilli and chop 5 seconds / speed 5.

Add sesame oil, tamari, rice wine vinegar, tahini and lemon juice and mix for 6 seconds speed 6. Remove from bowl and set aside.

Place 700 ml water into dirty TM bowl. Insert steaming basket into TM bowl and weigh in quinoa. Place TM lid onto thermomix and add chicken to the Varoma dish and steam for 20 minutes / Varoma / Speed 3.

Add snow peas & Bean sprouts and cook for a further 5 minutes / Varoma / Speed 3.

Remove quinoa from TM bowl and place in Thermoserver and set aside. Remove been sprouts and snow peas and set on top of quinoa (here is where the new 2.6 litre Thermoserver comes in handy) If you dont have one a large bowl will be fine.

Clean and dry TM bowl and place chicken and half of the dressing into the TM bowl. Shred Chicken 5 Seconds / "Counter-clockwise operation" / speed 5.

Serve quinoa onto plates and top with been sprouts, snow peas, shredded chicken and extra sauce.

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Tip

Extra chillis are required if you like some bite.

Swap cashews for peanuts if you can eat peanuts.

Top with coriander.

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