Ingredients
- Buffalo sauce and quinoa bites:
- 2 tbl butter melted
- 2 tbl olive oil
- 1/4 C Franks hot sauce
- 1/2 tsp. seasoned salt
- 2 C cooked quinoa
- 1 C cannellini beans
- 1/2 C panko bread crumbs
- 1 Lg egg lightly beaten
- 1 tsp pepper 3 tbl olive oil
- Blue cheese dressing:
- 1/2 C Greek yogurt
- 1/2 C buttermilk
- 1 tbl fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbl olive oil
- 1 tsp seasoned salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp dried celery flake if you have celery seed that would be fine as well
- 1/4 C blue cheese crumbles
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Buffalo Quinoa Bites with Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce
Time: 20 minutes prep, 15 minutes cook
Servings: 5
Directions
- Dressing:
- Combine all the blue cheese ingredients mix well and store in the refrigerator
- Buffalo sauce:
- Combine the melted butter , olive oil and hot sauce in a medium bowl
- stir well then set aside.
- Quinoa bites:
- In a large mixing bowl add the drained beans and mash them with a potato masher
- Add the 2 cups of cooked quinoa ,bread crumbs, 4 Tbl of the buffalo sauce mixture, beaten egg, salt and pepper
- Mix well to moisten.
- Form into about 30 balls using around 1 tbl of mixture per ball.
- Heat oil in large skillet over a medium high heat.
- Add the balls to the skillet around 10 -15 at a time and cook till they are golden brown on all sides .
- Toss the cooked balls gently in the remaining hot sauce till lightly coated and arrange on a platter with the dipping sauce
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Summary
This recipe was adapted by a lady named Tieghan I changed the seasoning in her dipping sauce a bit and followed the rest of her recipe . They were very good and the next time I make them instead of frying them in olive oil I am going to try and bake them and see if there is a difference or not besides being healthier. I will keep you posted.