Quinoa rainbow chard cheese bake with roast sesame choi bok and chestnut mushrooms 🥘

Evening folks,

here's my evening meal, its quinoa with rainbow chard, onion, garlic grated carrot and sweet pepper, in a cheese sauce, cooked with roasted choi with chestnut mushrooms and sesame seeds and roasted in sesame oil.

Choi bok is Chinese white cabbage and contains lots of nutrients including vitamin A and it is very low calorie so one serving is around 20 calories and contain 60% RDA of vitamin A.

I also made an apple crumble with a rice flake crumble for puddin'...😊

I hope everyone enjoys tonight and Happy New Year everyone,

Jerry 🙃

[Zest]

Hi Hidden ,

Your meal looks lovely. I like your dessert too.

Have a wonderful New Year's Eve, and Happy New Year!

Zest xx

[Hidden in reply to Zest]

Thank you Zest 😊 and I do like a nice desert.

And a very happy new year to you too😊 And enjoy your meal tonight. 🍴🍷 🍾 you deserve it

Jerry 😊

[Activity2004 Administrator]

This looks really fantastic, Hidden ! I will have to add this to my list of things to try and cook!😀

Happy and Healthy New Year!

[Hidden in reply to Activity2004]

Thank you Leah,

And Happy New Year to you 😊

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Thank you!😀

[Hidden]

Wow Jerry, that looks amazing. Did you use a recipe or did you create this dish yourself as I would love to know what you used and how much?

Alicia

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Hey thanks Alicia,

I often bake veg in a cheese sauce, this time I used 1 sweet red pepper, 6 leaves of rainbow chard, a grated carrot, garlic and red onion. Less than a cup full of dried quinoa which I cooked for about 12 mins.

I put some V/olive oil in a pan and added all the veg chopped with the grated carrot and cook for 10 mins, while I made a cheese sauce by melting 25g butter and adding 25g flour I use plain GF mix with 1 pint of milk and pour that into the veg add 50-75g grated cheese, I use mature cheddar and mix in the cooked quinoa, mix it all thoroughly and then bake 150C for about 25/30 mins to make the top golden. I seasoned with black pepper and a very little sea salt.

The Bok Choy is a standard recipe where it is roasted in sesame oil with sesame seeds and I added the mushrooms as I'd forgotten to put them in the cheese bake and roasted them for 12/15 mins.

The above would be enough for 3 adults or 2 adults and 2 children.

Jerry 😊

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Hi Jerry

Thank you very much for the recipe and how to make it, I will save this and make it as well, love all of the ingredients and really looking forward to making it - yummy.

This is another one for batch baking and putting in the freezer - glad I switched my spare freezer on.

I'm looking forward to making it.

Alicia

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Hey you're welcome Alicia 😊

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Thank you Jerry.

[Bong1968]

That looks very tasty! Thanks for sharing! 😊

[Hidden in reply to Bong1968]

Thank you Bong 😊

[BadHare]

Yummy stuff!

[Hidden in reply to BadHare]

Thanks Mel 😊