Quinoa Pancakes

 

 Quinoa Pancakes (vegan)

 I tripled the recipe below and it made about 15 pancakes

Ingredients

1 c cooked quinoa
*We cook our quinoa in bulk in the rice cooker and freeze it in portions - about 3 c. each container, and defrost as needed to save on cooking time.  We also do this for rice and barley

3/4 c all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1TBSP Flax mixed with 3 TBSP Hot water (to replace 1 egg)

1 TBSP melted coconut oil (or unsalted butter)

1/4 c soy milk

2 TBSP maple syrup

Directions

In a bowl, mix together quinoa, flour, baking powder, and salt.

In another bowl, mix together flax butter, milk, and syrup until smooth. 

Add wet mixture to flour mixture and whisk to combine.  Add more soy milk if batter is too thick, to "pancake batter" consistency but not too thin.

Lightly coat a large nonstick skillet or griddle with coconut oil or butter (not cooking spray, we need the oil to crisp the pancakes a bit)

Drop batter by heaping tablespoonfuls into skillet. 

Flip cakes and cook until golden brown on underside.

Crispy "Cheesy" Tofu

Slice a block extra firm tofu into thin rectangles (drain water and press if you can, I have the Tofu Xpress)

Dredge slices in mixture of nutritional yeast and salt and any other spices you like

Heat oil or butter (I used coconut oil) in frying pan and fry for about 10 min. per side on medium heat, checking often to make sure it doesn't burn

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins (vegan)

I made these today and added in a handful of kale to the blender with the soy milk - the green disappears once you bake.

Makes 12 standard sized muffins

Preheat Oven to 400

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 c oatmeal
• Handful of chopped raw kale
• 1 1/4 c soy milk
• 1 TBSP ground flax mixed with 3 TBSP hot water until gooey (or 1 egg)
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2cup packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips (I use Ghirardelli)
• 1/2 c chopped walnuts *optional (chopped finely in Ninja)
• 1/4 c shredded coconut *optional
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

Combine oats and milk and allow to stand for 15 minutes

Spray muffin tin with cooking spray or line with liners

Stir flax, oil, brown sugar, and chocolate chips into the oat and milk mixture

Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. 

Add oat mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just moist. 

Bake at 400 for 15 min., check and bake 5-10 min. more (mine were close to being overdone by 20 min.)

You can also drop these by spoonful on a greased cookie sheet to make "muffin cookies" - I did this with the last of the batter that wouldn't fit the muffin tin and they turned out well

Freeze or eat immediately