Quinoa Vegetable Stuffed Portobello Mushroom on a Bed of Godliness Recipe

Ingredients:

• Olive Oil (or whatever oil you want to use for coating the baking dish (coconut oil is great too)
• 6 small Portobello mushrooms (you can use big ones)
• 1/2 cup Quinoa (soaked and but not drained for 15 minutes before cooking)
• Yellow Squash cut into small pieces
• Carrot, peeled and cut into small pieces
• 1/4 of an onion, chopped into small pieces
• nutritional yeast
• salt, garlic powder and pepper
• lettuce, washed and places nicely around the plate
• tomato, sliced
• garlic and onion chives, basil
• sprouts

*directions to cook Quinoa perfectly:

you may rinse quinoa first, but I not.

1/2 cup Quinoa, soaked, not drained (soak in 1 1/4 cup of water)

add salt to the quinoa water when ready to cook

To Cook: start boiling the soaked quinoa in its original water. Once at a boil, cover and turn down to low and cook for 15 minutes. take of the stove and wait for at least 5 minutes… then, lift lid and fluff.. the quinoa should have opaque tail.

set aside quinoa

Directions after cooking Quinoa:

wash mushrooms and take out the steam and clean out the center

chop all your vegetables (onion, carrot, squash) and add the quinoa

sprinkle garlic powder, nutritional yeast, pepper and salt also, add chopped finely garlic and onion chives into the mixture and mix.

Stuff the mushroom with the mixture stuffing without breaking the mushrooms

oil the backing dish and preheat the oven to 325-350

place the stuffed mushrooms in the baking dish and cover with foil.

once oven is hot, bake for 2–25 minutes.

in the meantime, place lettuce, basil, tomato and sprouts on the dinner plates…

once mushrooms are cooked,

place them on the plate and serve hot.

enjoy!