Name: Quinoa Hot Chocolate
Cuisine: International
Ingredients: 1 cup fully cooked red quinoa (or 1/3 cup dry quinoa, cooked full in a 2:1 ratio. Be sure to rinse your quinoa completely before cooking to remove any bitterness from the saponins); 2-3 dashes coarse sea salt; 4 cups filtered water; 2 level tbsp 100% cocoa powder; 2 level tbsp size pieces of raw cacao paste (or if you don't have this ingredient you can substitute the same amount of your favorite dark chocolate bar, OR double the amount of cocoa powder above); 1 tbsp evoo; squeeze of lemon juice; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 4 very small pitted dates or 1.5 large medjool dates; 2-3 tsp raw honey or maple syrup (to make VEGAN use maple); 1 tsp cinnamon

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1 cup fully cooked red quinoa (or 1/3 cup dry quinoa, cooked full in a 2:1 ratio. Be sure to rinse your quinoa completely before cooking to remove any bitterness from the saponins)

2-3 dashes coarse sea salt

4 cups filtered water

2 level tbsp 100% cocoa powder

2 level tbsp size pieces of raw cacao paste (or if you don't have this ingredient you can substitute the same amount of your favorite dark chocolate bar, OR double the amount of cocoa powder above)

1 tbsp evoo

squeeze of lemon juice

1 tsp vanilla extract

4 very small pitted dates or 1.5 large medjool dates

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