Protein Packed Breakfast – Quinoa Spinach Egg Breakfast
I love breakfast any time of the day so when I got home from yoga today I needed some protein stat. If you don’t know my addiction to quinoa, you haven’t been paying attention. It’s delicious and packed with essential proteins which always gets a thumbs up in my recipe book.
I went a little freestyle today and ended with a protein PACKED meal that not only has protein from the quinoa and eggs but calcium and fiber from the spinach. It was as easy as making scrambled eggs.
{ I always choose organics whenever available }
Protein Packed Breakfast - Quinoa Spinach Egg Breakfast
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Author: The Organic Rabbit
Recipe type: Paleo, Gluten-Free, Protein, Breakfast
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- ¼ cup uncooked quinoa
- ¾ cup vegetable or chicken broth to cook the quinoa in but you can use water. The broth just gives it extra flavor.
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup fresh spinach packed loosely (could use kale too)
- ½ tablespoon ghee (can use coconut oil or olive oil)
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced OR 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened almond milk (can use any kind of unsweetened milk)
- Dash of salt
- Dash of pepper
Instructions
- QUINOA:
- In a small saucepan put ¼ cup quinoa and ¾ cup broth or water, bring to a boil.
- Once boiling lower to a simmer and while stirring occasionally, simmer for about 10 minutes. If you need to add more liquid, add a tablespoon at a time.
- EGG:
- In a small skillet, melt ghee and saute the garlic or onion for a minute on medium heat.
- In a separate medium bowl whisk eggs, almond milk, salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Place spinach in skillet and heat on low until completely wilted, stirring occasionally.
- Once spinach is cooked, pour in egg mixture.
- Combine egg mixture with spinach and cook like you would scrambled eggs by continually stirring until the eggs are cooked thoroughly.
- Once eggs are done add cooked quinoa and combine.
- **Optional: top with a little cheese (this will make it non-paleo)**
