Quinoa and Carrot Kugel Recipe (2024)

Not only did I make for a potluck this recipe I'd never tried before, but I didn't even follow it. Cooked carrots separately, sauteed first to lightly caramelize them, then cook in 1.5 c veggie broth. Used carrot water to cook the onions and quinoa. Added fresh thyme and a couple of pinches of cumin seed to carrots as I pureed them. No caraway. Did everything else as written, adjusting seasoning before putting in oven. Great! Next time, sweet or za'atar or ???

This was amazing - my husband cooked it as an experiment for our vege Xgiving dish, and I forced him to put it in muffin tins in case it came out so good that we wanted to bring the first batch (I figured we couldn't bring a half-eaten kugel to a party). The muffins were fantastic, much flavor and very moist. We added raisins and pecans, and we cooked the quinoa in a rice cooker with veg broth. We served it with mildy-spicy red pepper jelly that we bought from the store.

No need to go to the effort to make matchsticks since the carrots are going to be puréed. I cut up some that way to put on top as shown in the picture.

Bland. Maybe add chilis or chili powder and garlic powder

I enjoyed this kugel and would make it again. However, I recommend that you don't cook the carrots and quinoa in the same pot. It's a waste of time fishing out all the carrot sticks and then brushing the quinoa off and back into the pot. Carrots really got buried and there was more than 1/4 cup quinoa stuck to it. I'd follow the 2 tips after the recipe. You wouldn't have to fiddle with 3 inch sticks of carrot either. The food processor makes easy work of this recipe.

I added some cinnamon (1/2 tsp), ground ginger (1/4 tsp) & nutmeg (pinch) as well as taking the note someone else left to add pecans and raisins. I soaked he nuts and grapes before adding.

Great recipe— easy, healthy—BUT it would be a lot tastier if one added some, say, Moroccan spices. It’s very bland as is.

Thanks for all of the tips. I cooked my carrots separately. Added two fingers of ginger and cayenne pepper. Substituted goat cheese for cottage cheese. So good! Great use of the adorable carrots that we buy at the farmers market.

Not having cottage cheese on hand, I substituted plain yogurt as it was all being puréed anyway. It worked well and was delicious.

I wish the pictures would look more like the recipes. Twice now, the dishes in the pictures have had something done differently. Here. the carrots are supposed to be pureed and put in the kugel. It doesn't say anywhere that some are to be left out and put on top although that is clearly what has been done in the picture. This would change the amount of carrots pureed. This dish looks wonderful but I wish the pictures would match!

This is one of the most disappointing dishes from Martha ShulmanWe do not like caraway seeds so I did not add them. The dish was certainly easy to prepare but my family felt it had no taste. I added salt after it was baked but still totally tasteless and a big disappointment

Why does the picture shoe carrot sticks and the recipie call foe them to be puréed?

Used goat cheese instead of cottage, and fennel seed instead of caraway. Turned out satisfactory but was quite bland, and I am not sure my substitutions are responsible. Hot sauce solved.

Insanely good. I baked in a pie tin, would also be splendid as muffins. Use leek instead of onion, add 1" minced fresh ginger. After the quinoa & carrots are cooked, don't pick the carrots out, simply dump carrot-quinoa mixture onto a dinner plate & spread them out, let them cool, then mix them as is [don't puree] with the egg & cottage cheese.

Variation given in article but not on app (I haven’t tried but want to!)Variation: Sweet Quinoa and Carrot KugelOmit the onion and the caraway. Add 1/4 cup mild-flavored honey or agave nectar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and blend with the cottage cheese and eggs.

For 5 as a main dish we made it with 2 cups of quinoa and 3 pounds carrots. To add taste, replace cottage cheese by 400 g feta, add ginger and garlic. Smoked Tofu would also work.This is ideal quarantine food - all ingredients keep well. Quinoa gives additional protein and our kids like it.

3/5/20 Reviewers talked about it being rather bland, so I added garlic to the onion, along with cumin, coriander and cayenne. I can't imagine how bland it was without those additions, because it still was just ok. I won't be making it again.

I added a red pepper with the carrots and some minced garlic with the onion. These modifications, along with steaming the carrots / pepper separately, helped bring more flavor to the recipe.

As written, it would have been bland. I found an outside recipe for a mixture of spices that I added to the carrot and quinoa mixture. Like another reviewer, I cooked the carrots and quinoa separately and added together for the baking. I had way more carrot (just one pound of carrots) mixture than quinoa and my mixture looked nothing like the picture. The recipe requires too many tweaks to be delicious.

The Variation in the article not posted in this recipe is for "Sweet Carrot and Quinoa Kugel". Omit onion and caraway. Add 1/4 cup mild-flavored honey or agave nectar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and blend with the cottage cheese and eggs.

When I saw this recipe, I thought that this would be a good base for post thanksgiving fridge clean out. I already had 2 cups of cooked quinoa; I sautéed 2 small orange peppers, and an onion. I’m boiling 3 small sweet potatoes until I can mash them. I also had an almost full container of ricotta. I added 2 extra large eggs.ill be seasoning with kosher salt and ground pepper. We’ll see if it’s eatable, after I bake it!

This is one of the most disappointing dishes from Martha ShulmanWe do not like caraway seeds so I did not add them. The dish was certainly easy to prepare but my family felt it had no taste. I added salt after it was baked but still totally tasteless and a big disappointment

Great recipe— easy, healthy—BUT it would be a lot tastier if one added some, say, Moroccan spices. It’s very bland as is.

Do you have any suggestions or ideas to substitute the cottage cheese? There is a dairy allergy in my house.

I added some cinnamon (1/2 tsp), ground ginger (1/4 tsp) & nutmeg (pinch) as well as taking the note someone else left to add pecans and raisins. I soaked he nuts and grapes before adding.

Not having cottage cheese on hand, I substituted plain yogurt as it was all being puréed anyway. It worked well and was delicious.

Thanks for all of the tips. I cooked my carrots separately. Added two fingers of ginger and cayenne pepper. Substituted goat cheese for cottage cheese. So good! Great use of the adorable carrots that we buy at the farmers market.

I cooked this layered in an Instant Pot. Sautéed the onions and spices others suggested and the qinoa, and added the water as the bottom layer. Then I set up carrots, ginger and a bit of water in a stainless steel bowl on a rack over the qinoa. I followed the cooking guide for qinoa. After it was done, I simply pulled out the carrots (the bowl will be hot!) and blended them. Mixed everything in a pan and baked it for 45mins. Mostly held together. It did need the extra egg and more spices.