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baked quinoa and millet patties
Today I wanted to share a healthy, simple lunch idea with you guys: baked quinoa and millet patties. They taste so good inside a warmed pita bread alongside a simple salad with lemony vinaigrette.
I had a very virtuous Sunday this weekend. My plans to spend all day at the May Day Parade were scuppered when it got cancelled due to weather (we’re having April showers in May…) and so I was left with not a single plan for the day.
First, I made up a batch of Warm Breakfast Quinoa for the week. Halo shining, I decided while I was at it I’d prepare some healthy lunches too. This never happens – instead everyday I scramble around my kitchen trying to find something that my co-workers won’t judge me for eating as I rush out of the door (side note: bringing a LOT of cookies to work helps avoid the squinty-eyed weird looks from happening too often; being the Bringer of Baked Goods is a good thing).
I made up half of the recipe below, adapting Heidi Swanson’s original to use millet as well as quinoa and parsley instead of dill (which I hate). They taste excellent with a healthy dash of sriracha sauce and a couple of them would go down a treat at breakfast time with a fried egg and some wilted greens.
Baked Quinoa and Millet Patties
adapted from 101 Cookbooks
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups / 6 oz /170 g cooked quinoa, at room temperature*
- 1 1/4 cups / 6 oz/ 170 g cooked millet at room temperature*
- 5 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
- 1/3 cup/ .5 oz /15 g finely chopped fresh chives
- 1/3 cup /.5 oz /15 g finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1 cup / 1.5 oz /45 g finely chopped kale
- 1 yellow onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup / 3.5 oz /100 g bread crumbs, plus more if needed
- water or a bit of flour, if needed
- 1/3 cup / .5 oz / 15 g crumbled feta cheese
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400F / 200C.
- Combine the quinoa, millet, eggs, and salt in a medium bowl. Stir in the chives, parsley, kale, onion, garlic, and cumin. Stir well.
- Add the baking powder and bread crumbs, stir, and let sit for a few minutes so the crumbs can absorb some of the moisture.
- Gently stir in the feta.
- Form mixture into twelve 1-inch / 2.5cm thick patties with your hands. It seems best to err on the very moist side to avoid a not-overly-dry patty, but you can add more bread crumbs, a bit at a time, to firm up the mixture, if you need to. If the mixture is too dry then add a bit more beaten egg or water to moisten it.
- Arrange the patties with a bit of space between each on a Silpat-lined (or greased) baking sheet. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until the bottoms are brown. Flip and bake for another 5 minutes.
- Enjoy hot, or allow to cool to room temperature on a cooling rack. Makes about a dozen patties.
*To cook a batch of quinoa and millet: Combine 1 cups/ 6 oz/1700 g each of well-rinsed uncooked quinoa and millet with 3 cups / 700 ml water and 1/2 teaspoon fine-grain sea salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, cover, decrease the heat, and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes, until the quinoa and millet mixture is tender and you can see the little quinoa curlicues.
Category: recipe | Tags: breakfast, burgers, grains, grilling, recipes, vegetarian 14 comments »
May 7th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Yum – these look great and I love that you baked them. I actually just made a similar recipe last week but I have to confess – mine were fried! I served mine with some fresh ricotta and salsa verde and that was a really wonderful combination!
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May 7th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Forgot to say that I also hate dill – and I mean HATE!!
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May 7th, 2012 at 10:12 am
These look so tasty and you sold me with the fried egg and sriracha. Doesn’t it feel good to have a “virtuous Sunday”- I love it when that happens.
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May 7th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
These fritters look awesome! They must taste great!
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May 7th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
These look delicious! I wish I’d seen them sooner then I could have made them for my lunch this week!
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May 8th, 2012 at 11:04 am
What delightful quinoa and millet patties! Not only full of great ingredients, but visually enticing as well.
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May 8th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Thanks for adapting this, the dill put me off when I read the original version. I’ll be adapting this recipe again to use at home using gf breadcrumbs. Would it work best with dry/toasted breadcrumb or fresh? Thanks!
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May 8th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Really nice blog you have here, lots of delicious bites. Your Quinoa/Millet patties looks especially tempting.
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May 8th, 2012 at 11:54 pm
Hmm. . .these DO look good! I think this weekend it would be good to be virtuous, as LAST weekend I was not! And I have always found that bringing baked goods makes lots of friends (Here’s some cookies/cake/cinnamon rolls — will you be my friend?!?)
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May 10th, 2012 at 11:10 am
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks trying to perfect the veggie burger and have realised millet is key… so these sound perfect to. Veggie burgers and hot sauce (perhaps with a side of REALLY good onion rings and coleslaw) – very underappreciated treat!
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May 10th, 2012 at 11:11 am
*toO not to.
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May 10th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
They look fantastic and would be perfect with eggs for brekky
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May 12th, 2012 at 10:05 am
This looks like a great alternative to Falafel (something I can easily grow tired of!) Will definitely try this.
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May 14th, 2012 at 4:35 am
I really love Quinoa, when I was vegetarian, I used to eat a lot of cous cous, to the point now that I am really not that fussed about it anymore.
So I might give Quinoa a try, I never really think about it when I browse the supermarket but I always loved Tablouleh.
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