Healthy Quinoa Cakes

quinoa cake on a wood cutting board topped with a dollop of cucumber dill sauce

These Healthy Quinoa Cakes are a great side dish or as a light lunch with a piece of fruit. Make the optional Yogurt Dill sauce to kick it up even more.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Servings

Calories 131kcal

Author Sherri Hagymas

Ingredients

2 ½ cups cooked quinoa cooled
1 cup panko bread crumbs or gluten free choice
4 eggs beaten
⅓ cup yellow onion or scallions finely chopped
⅓ cup Parmesan or feta cheese
3 cloves garlic minced
2 tablespoon olive oil or coconut oil for cooking

Yogurt Dill Sauce,optional

1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill
1 cup plain nonfat yogurt
1 teaspoons lemon juice

Instructions

Cook quinoa per package instructions.
Make dill yogurt sauce and set aside.
Then, combine 2 ½ cups cooked quinoa with all other ingredients
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
Scoop out ⅓ cup of mixture and form into a ball then press into about a 1 inch patty.
Cook for 5 minutes until the underside is golden brown.
Flip and cook for an additional 5 minutes until this underside is also golden brown.
Serve warm or cold.

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