Recipe: Quinoa Corn Bread, Quinoa Spoon Bread,Quinoa Garden Cakes, Banana Cake Quinoa

QUINOA CORN BREAD
Source: Ancient Harvest Quinoa recipe leaflet
Makes: 6 servings

2 cups corn meal
1 cup quinoa meal*
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp honey or brown sugar
1 large egg, beaten
3 tbsp butter or bacon fat, melted
2 1/2 cups buttermilk
1 (4 oz) can chopped green chilies or jalapeno tomato relish (optional)**
Butter (for serving)

Preheat oven to 425 F.

*Prepare quinoa meal by grinding raw quinoa in a blender. Combine all dry ingredients; set aside.

Combine wet ingredients. Mix with the dry ingredients.

Bake in greased 9x9-inch pan or greased muffin tin until golden (about 25 minutes).

Serve hot, with lots of butter.

**For a spicier variation add optional green chilies or jalapeno tomato relish to the batter.

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Quinoa Spoon Bread (Nachinka)

1 small onion, chopped
1 c. Quinoa
l tsp. sugar
4 well-beaten eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 lb. butter/marg.
1 tsp. salt
1 qrt. warm milk
1 tsp. cinnamon

Fry the chopped onion in butter until golden brown. Turn the heat to low. Add Quinoa into the butter and mix well. Add the sugar, salt and warm milk. Stir slowly until the quinoa starts to thicken.
Remove from heat. Add the well-beaten eggs and baking soda and cinnamon. Mix well and place in a casserole dish. Bake in a 325 oven for 1 hour.

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Quinoa Garden Cakes with Lemony Yogurt
Makes 8 (4-inch) cakes

1 C quinoa
2 C water
1 1/2 Tb minced red onion
1/2 tsp minced garlic
2/3 C grated carrot
2/3 C grated yellow squash, seeds removed
1/2 10 oz package frozen chopped spinach; squeeze dry
zest of 1 large lemon
4 Tb unbleached white flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 Tb dill, minced
1/2 tsp canola oil
1 1/2 C nonfat yogurt
2 tsp lemon juice

Rinse quinoa well. Bring quinoa and water to a boil, simmer 20 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed. Cool.Combine all ingredients with the exception of 1 C yogurt, lemon juice, canola oil. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Rub oil on cookie sheet. Divide quinoa into 8 balls. Flatten each ball onto cookie sheet to make a 4-inch cake. Bake 10 minutes, flip cakes over. Bake 10 minutes.Combine yogurt and lemon juice, serve with cakes.

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Banana Cake Quinoa

2 1/2 c. Quinoa, cooked
2 c. Brown Sugar
3/4 c. vegetable oil
1 1/2 c. sour milk/buttermilk
1 Tbsp. baking soda
3 eggs
4 c. oatmeal
3 c. white flour
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. baking powder
4 bananas, mashed
Topping:
1/2 c. nuts, chopped
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 c. sugar

Beat together the sugar, milk, oil and eggs. Add the Quinoa.
Combine oatmeal and bananas. Mix well. Add to Quinoa mixture.
Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon. Add to Quinoa mix. Pour into a 9"x13" cake pan or 24 muffin cups and sprinkle with mixed topping ingredients.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 min~cake, 20 min.~muffins.