Quinoa - Easy way to cook Quinoa or brown rice

Easy way to cook quinoa (or brown rice) from: https://laughingspatula.com/how-to-oven-bake-quinoa-white-and-brown-rice/

Ingredients
1 cup quinoa, white or brown rice
2 cups water or broth
1 tablespoon butter or olive oil optional (I don't do this)
1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Heat 2 cups water or broth in microwave for 2 minutes. (I boil water like I am making tea not with my microwave).
Add quinoa (or rice) to 8 x 8 baking dish. (9 x 9 will work as well - really most of those tins are fine).
Pour hot liquid over the grain.
Add salt, pepper and butter if using (I don't use butter but do add other spices if I am serving it as is, otherwise, I don't if I am using it in a salad (see quinoa salad) or frying some vegis separately to mix in).
Cover tightly with foil
Bake quinoa or white rice for 25 minutes.
Bake brown rice for one hour.
Remove - LET REST 5 MINUTES.
Carefully remove foil - its hot in there!
Serve!

Fried Rice

Start with cooked rice.  See blog post on cooking Brown Rice.

• Heat pan or wok with olive oil.
• Sautee one onion (substitute scallions if preferred)
• (Optional step: add some cooked red meat, cut small)
• Add more oil. Add rice. Stir a bit and let it warm up and mix together.
• Spice as desired - salt, pepper, paprika work for me
• When done, scramble eggs in a separate bowl and add to rice mixture.  Keep stirring so the egg coats the rice.  Not looking for a rice-omelet concoction here.

Measures that might work [Sarah – check it out? J]

 1 onion or 2 scallions

 2 large eggs

 Salt, Pepper, paprika to taste

 4 tablespoons oil

 4 cups cold cooked brown rice

Brown rice

Easiest, fastest, and always perfect, way to cook brown rice.

 This was originally from http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/how-to-cook-brown-rice/ 

• Put brown rice and water together in a pot with a lid. Use the ratio of 1.5 cups water to 1 cup rice. [I use 2 c. rice to 3 c. water] 
• Set the heat to maximum, and bring the rice/water to a boil uncovered. Then put the lid on the pot, and reduce the heat to lowest possible. Simmer for 20 minutes. 
• Turn off the heat, and let the rice sit in the covered pot for another 10 minutes. Longer is OK too.