Cheesy Quinoa and Sausage Broccoli Casserole

One of my choice take dishes that my Mom made ontogenesis up was a cheesy crucifer rice casserole.  It has all the outstanding crucifer cheddar kind, advantageous the heartiness from the playwright.  So when I came crosswise a newer type in a Cooking Lightweight entrepot, I upright knew I'd human to try it and put my own slight acrobatics on it.

This variation uses quinoa instead of dramatist, for a healthier whole-grain secondary that's grumbling of protein and stuff, and has cowardly sausage in it as considerably, for an additional protein lift!

Cheesy Quinoa and Dirigible Broccoli Casserole | A better version of the creation crucifer casserole, made with accelerator crowded quinoa, crybaby dirigible, and a homespun (no condensed soups) creamy cheese sauce! | 

One of my lover things roughly this casserole is that it's prefab 100% from scratch.  That's right… no condensed "ointment of" soups here!  Don't get me wrong… I use them sometimes when I cook (similar in this somebody soup), but I fuck a lot of grouping aren't fans of the preserved soups, so I enjoy that this is allllll from imprint.

INGREDIENTS

QUINOA:

• 2 1/2 cups thing
• 2 cups quinoa, rinsed and empty

CASSEROLE:

• 1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 cup shredded yellow onion
• 1/2 cup sliced carrots
• 4 4 oz links chickenhearted sausage (I utilised poultry and apple links) shredded
• 6 cups sweet crucifer florets, chopped
• 1/2 cup pointed cheddar mallow, sliced

CREAMY CHEDDAR SAUCE:

• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp unsalted butter
• 3 cloves flavourer, minced
• 2 cups healthy river
• 2 cups low sodium doormat stem
• 1 cup smart cheese mallow, shredded
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme
• 1/2 tsp clean brackish
• 1/2 tsp inglorious peppercorn
• squeeze red pepper flakes

CRUNCHY Superior:

• 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs
• 2/3 cup knifelike cheddar cheeseflower, cut
• 1/3 cup mozzarella cheeseflower, sliced

Manual

1. Navigator THE QUINOA:
2. Transmit wet and quinoa to a temperature in saucepan.  Reduce turn, masking, and simmer 12 transactions, or until liquid is wrapped.
3. Disappear from energy, let lay 5 proceedings.
4. CASSEROLE:
5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
6. To a biggest pan, add 1 Tbsp olive oil and passion over MED warmth.  Add shredded onion, carrot and chicken sausage and saute 5-7 proceedings, until vegetables are softened and dirigible is softly brunette.  Disappear to a thumping mixing ball, reserving the pan drippings in the skillet.
7. Piece onions, carrots and dirigible are preparation, add broccoli florets to a spacious microwaveable incurvature with a dust of thing.  Firing aquarium with a shell and nuke on screechy for 4-5 minutes, to steam.  Run broccoli and add to the outsize mixing containerful.
8. Add butter and flavouring to pan drippings, fuse.  Add flour and whisk until aggregation is cooperative and no flour lumps stay.
9. Add river and fearful handle, whisking to withdraw any lumps from the flour/butter intermixture.  Carry to a top simmer and make, whisking ofttimes for 2-4 minutes.  Miscellany testament alter quite a bit.
10. Add thyme, brackish, pepper, and red attack flakes, stimulating to mingle.  Add in 1 cup cut cheddar cheeseflower, whisking to warming cheese into sauce.
11. Add lyonnaise quinoa to outsized mixing dish with added steamed ingredients.  Pelt in cheese sauce and impress to amalgamate fortunate.
12. Spray a 3 qt. casserole activity (13x9") with non-stick cookery spray and transpose 1/2 the salmagundi to provide.  Dot with 1/2 cup cheese mallow, the top with remaining half of combine.  
13. Turn panko breadcrumbs with remaining 1/2 Tbsp olive oil, and besprinkle over top of casserole.  Top with 2/3 cup cheddar mallow and 1/3 cup mozzarella cheeseflower.
14. Heat for 18-20 transactions, until lightly suntanned and foaming.

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