Cook ModePrevent your screen from going dark Ingredients US Customary –Metric 1 cup rolled oats (gluten-free if GF // or sub steel-cut oats*) 3-4 cups water (use less water for thicker, creamier milk!) 1 pinch salt 1 whole date, pitted (optional // for sweetness // or 1 Tbsp (...
Like many of its super-grain brothers and sisters, amaranth has been cultivated for thousands of years. Here's a look at the super-grain's nutrition and benefits.
Genetic transformation of grain amaranth has been a challenging enterprise due to its notorious recalcitrance to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation processes. This chapter will describe the relatively small number of studies, most of them involving leafy amaranths, that have been successful in overcoming...
Sauteing an onion and garlic in the pot before you cook the grain adds some depth. You can use fresh beans that you’ve prepared, or even toss the fastest-cooking, dried legumes (like lentils) into the pot with the grains to cook them fresh. The point is that it’s cheap, not to ...
Add green lentils to salads, and sub red lentils for chicken in curry. Amaranth Shutterstock Protein, per 1 cup cooked: 9.4 grams This nutrient-packed seed was a staple of the Incan diet. The grain-like seeds (like quinoa, it's known as a pseudocereal) have a mild, nutty taste. ...
Lectins are not broken down in the normal digestive process. This leaves large, intact proteins in the gut. If you recall, most proteins are broken down in the digestive process, but the structure of some grain proteins makes them very difficult to digest (for the geeks: these proteins are...