Italian Qunioa and Sausage

Ingredients

For the Italian Quinoa

  • 1 cup quinoa
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 tsp chicken bullion
  • 1 tsp Italian seasoning
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Preheat your thermos. Bring the water to a boil. Once the water boils, use the water in the thermos to rinse the quinoa. Once the quinoa is rinsed dump it into the thermos, add all of the seasonings and then the boiling water. Give the thermos a shake, lay it on its side and let the quinoa cook for 35-40 mins.

For the sausage

  • 1 Tblsp olive oil
  • 1/2 of an onion, chopped
  • 1/2 cup green bell pepper, chopped
  • 3/4 lb of Italian sausage
  • 1 (14 oz) can diced Italian tomatoes
  • salt and pepper

Heat the oil in a skillet. Add onion and pepper and saute until tender. Add sausage and cook until no longer pink. Drain any excess oil. Add tomatoes and heat through. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Serve sausage mixture over quinoa. Serve with a nice green salad and some bread on the side for a complete dinner. Enjoy!

5 thoughts on “Italian Qunioa and Sausage”

  1. This sounds great and I’ll try it next week. Is there any way to print off just the recipe? When it prints it does the whole page including the THERMOS COOKING heading and ends up printing 3 pages. That’s a waste of paper. Thanks!

  2. There are two ways of printing just the recipe:-
    (I) Use your mouse to select just the text that you want and use ‘File’, ‘Print’ and print ‘Selection’.
    (II) Use your mouse to select just the text that you want and then ‘Copy’ & ‘Paste’ it into a Word-Processing package such as Open-Office (which is free) and then you can ‘Save’ it or ‘Print’ it.
    I tend to just save whole pages to my hard disk and refer to them when I want to use the recipe. That way I don’t use ANY paper or ink. By the time you’ve used a recipe a couple of times you probably know it well enough to not need to refer to it (unless you are baking in which case you have to have precise measurements).

    Great site by the way.

  3. Awesome! Never even thought of thermos-cooking, and I thought I was an expert at fringe-living (no electric, no running water, living in vehicle, ect). This technique sounds like great way for someone living in a van, with limited Sterno or propane camping stove, to prepare decent hot meals with very little wasted energy.

  4. Scoob I’m in the same situation, (just stumbled on this site myself… not the fringe-living part!)

    Does the thermos need re-filling with hot water during the 35-40 minutes?
    My 16oz Food jar doesn’t seem to keep water at piping hot temperatures for that long..

    Quick question, has anyone worked out how to subscribe to this site?
    The RSS buttons don’t seem to be working..

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