Ancient Harvest Organic Quinoa Pasta, Linguine, 8 Ounce (Pack of 12)

I love Ancient Harvest products but sometimes it's difficult to find locally some store that carry it don't always, so when I saw amazon had it at a reasonable price (which there not always) I bought it

I used this to make Slow Cooker Pizza Pasta. It worked beautifully! The texture was great! Not grainy or cardboardy or gluey. I seriously went back to the product description to make sure it was GF. I will stick with this brand from now on 100%!

tastes just like regular pasta. So much better than the other gluten free rubbish on the market.

It says DON'T add salt and oil. Like Han Solo says, "Never tell me the odds". I put in a pinch of sea salt and a tbsp. of COCONUT oil with a whole box. I do this AFTER the first stir. You really have to stay on it. You HAVE to stir it. If you do, you will be rewarded. Just this afternoon, I made some and I missed stirring because a talkative workman wanted to me to look at something. It stuck to the bottom of the pot. No matter, I lost a layer, so what? It was otherwise soft and not al dente, but still very good tasting. I added a little FRESH parmesan and tomato sauce with my favorite meat and you couldn't tell the difference.The best part is the Quinoa. It sits in your tummy for hours and ruminates. You feel full. It's not a grain, though it's marketed that way. It's not. It's a seed. Look it up if you don't believe me. I've used quinoa for lots of things from replacing rice side dishes to bread. This is a very good product and saves me from having to make it. But try for yourself with and without the oil and salt and see what you think. I didn't use oil and salt at altitude in Colorado, and it came out fine. I use it down here at Sea Level in Florida and it comes out fine. May have something to do with it. Could also be the water. Seems harder in Florida than in CO.

I opened the box and was shocked that it was only half full. Some real settling there!. I weighed the product in the box and it did weigh just over 8 oz. so with the box weighing in also they're accurate. I cooked it 6 minutes but then put it in the oven. Need to perfect that so it doesn't get too soft. The flavor is different: It's like going from beef to game meat. I think we'll get used to it. Corn is the first ingredient and quinoa the second so don't know how much of the healthful stuff is in there.Edited 6/18. One reviewer said she checked and it's 75% corn, and my son said it tastes like a corn tortilla. I found the best way to cook it is to add lots of cheese to the dry pasta, put milk just to the top, and bake it for 1/2 hour or so. Not overcooked, but gritty with a strong corn flavor. Can't really recommend it.

I'm new to the gluten free diet, and I'm a pasta fan. Its a staple in our house, everyweek we have it once or twice a week. I've tried other gluten free pastas, and they are ok IF you eat them all as soon as you cook it. If you want to reheat it it would turn to mush. I stumbled upon the Quinoa brand pastas and fell in love with pasta again.This pasta not only stands up to bold flavors, but to reheating as well. While its more expensive than I would have liked, its made pasta an option again so it's worth the extra cost.I would recommend skipping the "time method" of cooking, as I've found I need my noodles cooked a couple minutes longer than the box suggests so i've switched to the taste it method.My gluten eating family prefers the consistancy of this pasta to its wheat based counter parts. Its a hardier noodle and it seems (to me) to be more filling. While the box sizes are generally 1/2 a pound vs the full pound you get with wheat pasta you actually get away with making less pasta and it going just as far.The other varieties of this pasta are equally good, I'm a happy pasta eater again.

Quinoa is the third and smallest quantity ingredient. It should be called corn and rice pasta, with a smidgen of quinoa to pretend that it is somehow special. Buy beware.

Ancient Harvest quinoa linguine is a good gluten-free substitute for gluten-based linguine. This corn-quinoa blend looks like gluten-based linguine when cooked, and while not the same as gluten-based, the texture is much better than most rice-based pastas - it doesn't have an al dente bite, but it does twirl up on a fork, if not overcooked. The flavor is not typical of linguine, but it's also not off-flavored - it's neutral-flavored and pairs well with red sauces, and is also acceptable with delicate or mild sauces. To prevent the pasta from sticking or clumping, follow the directions, and in addition, stir the water while adding the pasta, so that it doesn't have the chance to stick together. For those on gluten-free diets, this quinoa linguine is the closest I've tasted to gluten-based and can be served to the whole family without complaint.Ancient Harvest quinoa linguine is organic, made in the USA, and manufactured in a gluten-free facility.Each serving has 205 calories, 46 g carbs, 4 g protein, 1 g fat, 4 mg sodium, 0 mg cholesterol.Ingredients: organic corn flour, organic quinoa flour.