Sometimes I have a fridge & pantry full of random ingredients. It can be both stressful and liberating at the same time.
The other night I was starving and had no game plan. I had a lot of shitake mushrooms, plenty of pepperoni and quinoa at the ready. This is what I ended up with…my version of fast food.
Quinoa is an ingredient that always works for me.
So are mushrooms ~ especially ones sautéed in butter & olive oil. Shitake are my favorite, I love their full flavor. Feel free to use any mushrooms you wish. You can also mix varieties.
Pepperoni is always in favor as well. We have been loving the Applegate Farms Natural Pepperoni.
Fall is my favorite season. I’ve been astounded by all the natural beauty. I’m outdoors all the time. It is comforting to eat healthful foods like this to keep me on the go.
This healthy meal comes together in minutes and is perfect for busy weekday nights and nice for casual entertaining as well.
Top with some fresh herbs for color & kick.
Enjoy!
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Quinoa Recipe Links
- Creamy Buffalo Chicken Quinoa Half Baked Harvest
- Healthy Eggs Benedict Quinoa Emerging Foodie
- Mexican Quinoa Salad Extra Cheese Please
- Parsley & Quinoa Tabbouleh with Spiced Yogurt Sauce Simple Provisions
- Southwestern Quinoa Scramble Playin With My Food
- Southwestern Turkey & Quinoa Stuffed Peppers The Dude Diet
Oh, my word! Marla, this is an amazing-looking dish! Love the flavor combos!
Thanks Sommer! I love when “random” works!
I love throwing whatever I have in the pantry into a dish! Looks like you had some delicious items in your pantry! I love the addition of pepperoni 🙂 mmm!
I know it ~pepperoni (and bacon) are always a win!
A scrumptious combo! Wow, our trees are still very green compared to yours.
Cheers,
Rosa
Rosa, I’m wondering if fall is early here this year. We had sooooo much rain & cold days ~ think it shocked the trees.
This looks fantastic!!!
Thanks Claire!
I love a healthy fast meal, what a great ideal! This is so beautiful…
Thank you ~ I had no plan to post this & I am really happy I ran with it 🙂
Gorgeous photography and fabulous “fast food”, Marla! Serendipity usually pays off big with what is fresh on hand and in the pantry for a tasty, savory and satisfying meal. Glad it worked this time for you. Thanks for sharing your results!
It really does Stacy! I’m very happy I took the extra effort to photograph this “random” dish 🙂
It must be a delicious mix. I like everything with quinoa 🙂
I LOVE shitake’s! this looks fantastic Marla!
I love shiitake mushrooms, fabulous quinoa bowl!
I know I *should* like quinoa because it’s so healthy but for the most part, I don’t. I think there’s one breakfast dish I like it in. BUT I’d be willing to try this. If I can get over the fact that someone said it has tails. Yeah, I’m weird that way.
I would kill to have this for lunch right now!
I love mushrooms so this is off to a great start for me!
Good idea. I’ve been needing to use my dry mushrooms.
I love this clean-out-the-fridge meal! Shitake mushrooms are my favorite!
So gorgeous! This is my kind of fast food! Thanks so much for linking my my buffalo chicken quinoa bake! You are always the best supporter!
Thank u so much for the referral! It kinda made my day 😉 I LOVE everything mushroom, AND everything pepperoni. this is definitely going to my new recipes to try soon list 🙂
Mushrooms, pepperoni, quinoa…what a beautiful meal!!
Yum! How flavorful 🙂 I love shitake mushrooms!
Gorgeous and so tasty, Marla!
This looks perfect. I love quinoa, mushrooms and pepperoni. And quick and easy to prepare, I am so going to make this!
I’ve been quinoa obsessed lately! This sounds good!
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Interest combo of ingredients. I like it a lot.Can’t wait to try
So very tasty! Hopefully you can try soon Kathy!
Good Lord Almighty I want that.