ground beef and broccolified quinoa curry

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Let's just eat!

A Mamatouille original...

You'll need:

• 1 cup uncooked quinoa, any color (rice would work here, too)
• olive oil
• one head of broccoli, cut into tiny deciduous-treelike florets
• kosher salt
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 peeled and grated carrots
• pinch of saffron threads
• 1 chicken bouillon cube
• black peppercorns, for grating
• 2 t. curry powder
• 1 t. powdered cumin
• 1 t. powdered coriander
• 1/2 t. onion powder (or 1/2 chopped onion--if you use chopped onion, add in with the ground beef and garlic at the beginning of browning in the frying pan)
• sprinkle of Saigon cinnamon (or regular cinnamon)
• 1 t. turmeric
• sprinkle of spicy Chinese mustard powder
• 1 lb. ground beef
• juice of 1/2 lemon

Do this:

Tell your rumblin' tum to simmer down, 'cause you're gonna love the outcome!

Toss your broccoli with some olive oil and roast in a 400-degree oven until soft and fox-colored (as they say in Japanese), about 20-25 minutes. Sprinkle some kosher salt over all.

Meanwhile, rinse your quinoa in a mesh strainer until it stops foamin' (at the mouth), then scrape into a pot on the stove and add two cups of water. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer about fifteen minutes, till soft.

As the quinoa and broccoli are doing their thang, brown the ground beef and minced garlic in a frying pan, then add the grated carrots till softened up a bit.

Throw in a pinch of saffron and crumble in a chicken bouillon cube. Continue stirring, and then add freshly grated pepper, curry powder, cumin, coriander, onion powder, a sprinkle of cinnamon (Saigon has a lovely flavor), turmeric, and a sprinkle of Chinese mustard powder. Simmer a few minutes.

Turn the beef mixture down to low, add the broccoli and quinoa, and squeeze the juice of half a lemon over all. Stir, serve in bowls with spoons and little colorful organic heirloom maters.

Generously serves four.

Use your broccoli-roasting oven heat for a good cause: We had a Paleo mixed-berry crumble for dessert. Mmmm, mmmm, deeeeeeeeelish.