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Amaranth Recipes
in Green Living
I was so excited! I spent lots of time perusing WF today, and decided I was finally going to try amaranth, since I've heard such raves about it's nutritional values. I was expecting it to puff up like couscous, but was disappointed when it just ended up looking (and having the texture of) wet sand. Did I do something wrong, or is this how it just is? Do any of you have some recipes I should try instead? 10-Q!
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Re: Amaranth Recipes
I haven't cooked with it before but there are a couple recipes in the New Whole Grains Cookbook. One is for an amaranth style polenta and the other is for a cannellini bean soup where the amaranth is used to thicken it.
The book says that "the tiny seeds stay crunchy while producing a porridgey consistency all around them. The Aztecs popped the seeds and mixed them with sweet syrups, a treat still made in Mexico called alegria. The seeds can be steeped or added raw to baked goods for crunch." Also, "Tiny amaranth will cook only to a porridge consistency, studded with tiny crunches, unless you pop them."
Tired after a long morning of hiking and swimming.