Quinola Spicy Mexican Express Organic Quinoa 250g

Alice & Oscars Quinola was created to bring some super tasty new flavours to your kitchen and make being healthier that little bit easier. Quinola is the sacred crop of the Incas, the uber tasty, nutritious super-grain that powered the greatest empire South America has ever seen.  It?s been recognised as a superfood by NASA, who have earmarked quinoa as a key food source for deep space missions.  It might be healthy but you wouldn?t know it from the taste.  Discover the three distinctive tastes and textures across the range.  If you can boil water you can cook Quinola.  It?s that easy.Prepare a delicious and healthy salad in minutes.  Tear open the pack and mix with pretty much whatever you have in your fridge.  Diced cucumber and tomatoes, a tin of anchovies, some sultanas and cheese. Whatever takes your fancy.Quinoa is closely related to species such as beetroots and spinach and was first domesticated by the Andean peoples around 3,000 years ago and has been an important staple in the Andean cultures where the plant is indigenous, although relatively obscure in the rest of the world.  The Incas held the crop to be sacred, and referred to it as chisaya mama or "mother of all grains", and it was the Inca emperor who would traditionally sow the first seeds of the season using "golden implements".  During the Spanish conquest of South America, colonists scorned quinoa as "food for Indians", and even actively suppressed its cultivation due to its status within indigenous religious ceremonies.  In fact, the conquistadores forbade quinoa cultivation for a time and the Incas were forced to grow wheat instead.Quinola Mothergrain Express Quinoa Spicy Mexican is a perfectly cooked ready to eat supergrain with added tomatoes and various vegetables that is a perfect accompaniment to any meal or is great on its own as a delicious and nutritious filler.