Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sweet potato quinoa balls. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Today I have a guest - my sister is cooking one of our favorite recipes! Our toddlers absolutely love eating these nutritious quinoa balls! This is what I make for dinner most often when no one is looking.
Sweet Potato Quinoa Balls is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Sweet Potato Quinoa Balls is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sweet potato quinoa balls using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Potato Quinoa Balls:
- Get 1 large sweet potato
- Prepare 1 pinch Paprika
- Get 1 pinch Dried cayenne
- Prepare Coconut oil (or any cooking oil)
- Prepare 1 dash Salt and pepper
- Prepare 1 cup Quinoa
- Get 1 1/2 cup Water
- Make ready 1 medium onion
- Make ready 1 large Egg (maybe 2)
Quinoa can have an unpleasant, bitter flavor. Be sure to rinse the quinoa in a strainer before cooking to help eliminate that unwanted taste in your. Uncover and fluff with a fork. Toss the sweet potatoes with a drizzle of olive oil and a few pinches of salt and pepper.
Steps to make Sweet Potato Quinoa Balls:
- Preheat oven to 400°F Fahrenheit.
- Cut sweet potato into small cubes and spread out on baking sheet. Drizzle with coconut oil, paprika, cayenne, and salt and pepper.
- Bake potatoes for about 20 minutes or until potatoes are fairly soft.
- While potatoes are baking, cook the quinoa in water. Bring to a boil and then summer until all of the water is absorbed (10-20 minutes)
- Chop onions into small pieces. Once quinoa and potatoes are done, sauté the onions in a large frying pan. Stir in the sweet potatoes. Cover and cook over medium heat for about 5-10 minutes until the sweet potatoes begin to break down. Then, stir in the quinoa and mash together while cooking. Once everything begins to stick together, place mixture in a bowl and refrigerate until it is cool enough to handle.
- Once cool, roll mixture into balls (whatever size you like). You can either eat these now, or freeze them. I think they are easier to fry once they are frozen.
- When you are ready to serve them, roll the balls in an egg wash and cover cook over medium heat. Be sure to cook each side.
- Serve alone or with a sauce of your choice. I like a roasted vegetable tomato sauce, but BBQ sauce or mustard would be really good.
Toss the roasted sweet potatoes with the chickpeas, quinoa, scallions, cabbage, feta, almonds, and salad greens. Drizzle with olive oil, the lemon juice, and. Luckily, sweet potatoes and beans have literally been my best friend. A couple weeks ago I made a Sweet Potato Chickpea Curry and OH MY GOSH! The sweet potatoes are covered in a spice blend then roasted in the oven to bring out their natural sweetness.
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