Quinoa Cakes

By vdub

Ingredients

• 1 cup Quinoa (I used 3 cups cooked quinoa in the recipe and had a little left over. See note below)
• 1 cup Parsley
• 1/2 cup Chia – ground
• 1/4 cup Pine Nuts
• 1/4 cup Onion
• 1/4 Red Pepper
• 3 Tbsp Nutritional yeast
• 1 Tbsp Tamari
• 1 Garlic clove
• 1/2 tsp Salt (optional)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from robinskey.com

Preparation

Step 1

Cook quinoa. Quinoa is cooked much like rice. Simmer 1 cup of quinoa in 2 cups of water until water is gone and quinoa is cooked. You can cook it in vegetable stock for more flavor. After the quinoa is cooked, drape a clean tea towel over the top of the pot. This will absorb moisture and you will have fluffier quinoa.

Note from testing – I was going to use 2 cups of quinoa in the recipe. There are only 2 cups showing in the ingredient photo below, but I decided last minute to add an extra cup to the recipe, as I had some left over. I often make a little extra when I make it as left over quinoa is an easy thing to use up. It is great added to a salad, a stir fry or many other dishes.

Place ground chia in a small bowl and add one cup of water. Stir and set aside while you chop the onion and red pepper. By the time vegetables are chopped the chia will most likely already be thickened up. This is what is going to bind the quinoa and ingredients together.

Place the chia, parsley and chopped vegetables in the food processor and process until small uniform size chunks. Add the rest of the ingredients, except quinoa and process again until everything is broken down into little pieces. Then the safest method is to transfer this mixture to a bowl with the quinoa and stir to mix it well together. My quick method is to add the quinoa to the processor and pulse chop it lightly together just until blended. Be careful if you do it this way not to over process. It’s best if the quinoa keeps its characteristic quinoa shape.

Heat the frying pan and add a little coconut oil. Then drop quarter cup amounts onto pan and flatten with the bottom of your flipper (aka spatula, but it’s totally confusing to have 2 different utensils both called a spatula, so I will call the one you flip burgers or patties with a flipper, and the rubber one used to clean out bowls a spatula). Cook patties until golden brown on each side and then transfer to a plate.

While you’re frying (or before) you can make sweet and hot lemon garlic sauce to go with them.