Recipe: Tasty Tropical Quinoa Papaya Boats

Tropical Quinoa Papaya Boats.

You can cook Tropical Quinoa Papaya Boats using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tropical Quinoa Papaya Boats

1. You need 1 cup of quinoa.
2. Prepare 1.5 cups of water.
3. It's 1 of lemon.
4. It's 2 of pineapple " ring, diced.
5. You need 1 of papaya.
6. You need 1/2 of cinnamon stick.
7. It's 1/4 tsp of sea salt.
8. You need 1/4 cup of parsley fresh leaves.
9. You need 1/4 cup of cilantro fresh leaves.

Tropical Quinoa Papaya Boats step by step

1. Optional* Soak Quinoa for 8 hours or overnight..
2. Rinse Quinoa thoroughly under hot water. While rinsing, heat water with sea salt and cinnamon stick and bring to a boil. Once boiling add Quinoa and bring to a simmer, cook for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and allow water to be absorbed..
3. Wash the Lemon and grate 1/2, set aside. Chop Lemon in half and juice it with a citrus squeezer or simply use your hands. Set aside..
4. Dice Pineapple by first cutting two 1"discs off the top if the pineapple after you've chopped off the flower. Stack the discs on top of one another and chop the skin off as if you were cutting an octagon. Next, cut the Pineapple vertically, spacing 1" between each cut. Skip over the core, cutting just around it and removing it(save for smoothies!). Turn 90 Degrees and repeat, making perpendicular cuts to make square pineapple pieces. Set aside..
5. Cut Papaya in half length wise. Remove about 75% of the seeds and save in a jar and lace in the fridge. Carve out the Papaya slightly to make more space for the filling..
6. De-stem parsley and cilantro, set aside..
7. Once the Quinoa has absorbed all of the water, remove cinnamon stick and add lemon juice and zest..
8. Next, 75% of parsley and cilantro to the Quinoa..
9. Finally, once the Quinoa has cooled down a bit, add the diced pineapple..
10. Now stuff the filling into the papaya boats and garnish with the remaining herbs..
11. Enjoy!.