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    Zucchini and Parmesan Quinoa Bites

    February 25, 2013 4 Comments

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    Slimming Eats Recipe

    Serves 2

    Extra Easy – 1 HEa per serving

    Green – 1 HEa per serving

    or 1 syn per bite if not using a HEa

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup of uncooked quinoa
    • 1 zucchini (courgette), grated
    • 60g/2oz of parmesan (2 HEa’s)
    • black pepper
    • 1 egg, beaten
    • 1 egg white
    • 240ml of chicken or vegetable stock
    • olive or coconut oil spray

    Method

    Thoroughly rinse the quinoa under cold water

    Add the quinoa to a chicken/vegetable stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and allow to simmer on a low heat until stock is absorbed. Turn off heat, but leave lid on to continue to steam for approx 5-10 mins. Then using a fork, fluff up the quinoa. Each grain should have what looks like a little hair when cooked.

    Transfer to a bowl and allow to cool.

    Preheat oven to 180c or 350f (gas mark 4)

    Grease a mini muffin pan with some olive oil or coconut oil spray

    Squeeze excess moisture from the zucchini (courgette) and add this into the quinoa along with the parmesan. Season with some black pepper.

    Add the beaten egg and egg white and thoroughly mix ingredients together.

    Spoon the mixture into the holes in the muffin pan and gently push down with the back of a spoon.

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    Place in the oven and bake for approx 20-25 mins until lightly golden.

    Allow to cool slightly in the pan and then gently ease out each quinoa bite with a small spoon.

    Makes approx 12 mini bites.

    If you prefer, you can scoop the mixture onto a greased baking tray and make the mixture into thin patties, by flattening down with a fork and baking until crisp and golden. Gently flip half way through cooking time.

    These are great served with salads or as a side dish to a main meal.

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    The recipe above has been calculated for Slimming World, however for those of you following the Weight Watchers plan or another calorie controlled type diet. Below is the approx. nutritional information:

    Approx. NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

    per serving

    Calories

    330

    Fat

    13.1g

    Saturated Fat

    5.9g

    Total Carbohydrate

    31.4g

    Dietary Fibre

    4.2g

    Sugars

    2.6g

    Protein

              22.6g

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    Nutritional information is an estimate and is to be used for informational purposes only

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    Filed Under: cheese, Extra Easy, grains and legumes, Green, Lunch, Side Dishes, Snacks Tagged With: bites, Extra Easy, points plus, pro points, Quinoa, slimming world recipes, slimming world USA, syn free, weight watchers recipes, zucchini

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Guest says

      March 01, 2013 at 10:31 am

      I made these yesterday and cannot believe that you can eat six of these little beauties for 1HEa per serving, or am I reading something wrong? I am going to eat the rest before somebody tells me I am ......thank you slimming eats. yum yum!

    2. Guest says

      March 01, 2013 at 10:35 am

      I made

    3. Kathy says

      August 09, 2017 at 11:05 am

      I wanted to be able to print this off from my tablet but this recipe doesn't have the print symbol like the others. It looks lovely.

    4. Shevy (Slimming Eats) says

      August 09, 2017 at 10:54 pm

      Hi Kathy, some of my older recipes haven't yet been converted into the recipe box, but if you go to file and then print in your browser, you should be able to print it that way. I will get this updated very soon.

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