Pizza Style Quinoa by Emma

The big un before cooking

Evening all. Another recipes, ok then. Here's another adapted one. I have heard of a lot of pizza style things made on Slimming World and often thought "why not just have pizza" but then I thought having yummy quinoa in with the sauce sounded right up my street. I'd go as far as saying that not only is it up my street, it's parked in my drive. (I might have let that metaphor go a little bit far)

Anyway the recipe... This one is a little bit loosey goosey so feel free to embelish it with whatever you fancy...

Indiviual size before cooking

Pizza Style Quinoa

Serves as many as you like

1 HEA/6 syns per person

Per person

40g dried quinoa

80ml chicken stock

70g light mozzarella

1/2 tin of chopped tomatoes

2tbsp tomato puree

1tsp dried basil

1tsp dried oregano

1 clove crush garlic

Pizza toppings of your choice (I went with green peppers, sweetcorn, mushrooms, cooked bacon, onion, 1 syn of green olives and fresh tomatoes)

Rinse the quinoa in some cold water (this is important as it removes bitterness) and then cook in the stock for about 10-15mins on the hob (follow packet instructions or simmer the stock, bung in the quinoa and simmer until the liquid is absorbed)

Set the cooked quinoa to one side and use the same pan to make your "pizza" sauce. Simmer the chopped tomatoes, puree, basil, oregano and garlic and simmer for about 10mins. Take off the heat and stir through the quinoa. Then pour this mixture into a large ramekin or lasagne dish depending on how many you are cooking for.

Now layer on your toppings like you would on a pizza, top with the mozzarella and slices of fresh tomatoes. Then pop it into an oven preheated to about 200C and bake until the cheese bubbles and goes brown in places.

Serve with a salad or some chips or whatever you fancy really. Enjoy!