Quinoa and sweet potato

This candy snack combines candy potato, quinoa and cinnamon. It’s no longer fairly cake and slightly too squishy to name bread but should you love cinnamon and candy potato and fancy anything snacky that’s filled with protein and carbohydrates then strive this.



INGREDIENTS

  • 2 small Sweet Potatoes, about 300g
  • 1 cup / 175g Quinoa
  • ½ cup / 120ml Water
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp Turmeric
  • ¼ tsp Cayenne Pepper
  • pinch of Salt and Pepper
  • ½ tsp Baking Powder
  • water for soaking

METHOD

  • Soak the quinoa in water for at the very least 15 mins, overnight is best.
  • Drain the quinoa and placed in a blender with everything aside from the candy potatoes.
  • Blend till all damaged up.
  • Grate the candy potatoes.
  • Mix everything collectively and press tightly right into a lined pan about 10-12″ squared.
  • Bake for about an hour at 180C / 350F till the candy potato is cooked.
  • Take out of the oven and go away to cool and agency up.
  • Slice into 16 small squares.
  • Eat inside 3 days and shop inside the fridge.


Suitable for vegan, coeliac, dairy-free, gluten-free, wheat-free, nut-free, grain-free and egg-free diets. With extra turmeric, cayenne pepper and black pepper for foodstuff and taste. Perfect on its own or topped with a wholesome candy or savoury spread.


In an finest issue you could soak the quinoa overnight but typically I basically have time for 15-20 mins. A brief soak is nonetheless sufficient to make this quinoa bread recipe and I suggest utilizing warm water.

Most quinoa that's bought inside the UK and US is pre-washed so doesn’t have a bitter taste. If yours isn’t pre-washed then do rinse appropriately after soaking to take away the bitterness.


The squares are fairly delicate so do cut into small items so they reside collectively whilst eating. If you desire them firmer and crispier then placed again inside the oven as soon as they were taken out of the pan and rancid the paper.

Next time I make those I will possibly upload a few flooring chia seeds and flooring oats to make it firmer.


If you're a eager gardener you'll be able to strive utilizing the soaking water from the quinoa to fertilise plants.  Several of us all the time publish on my recipes (like seed milk) on Facebook no longer to throw away the soaking water as crops love it.

You genuinely don’t desire to drink the water your self as they're soaked to take away the phytic acid enzymes inhibitors to make the nutrients simpler to digest.


The quinoa right the following is cooked whilst it’s baked inside the oven so no have got to do any boiling. One consumer had a mishap with my chocolate quinoa avocado fudge cake as they boiled the quinoa as per the packet then used inside the recipe. The ensuing cake didn't set and had no danger of slicing, but was possibly a yummy pudding!

Quinoa is truly a seed so here's properly for grain-free diets. It’s typically called grain as it’s used like a grain regardless of being a seed.


I did higher those with avocado, nevertheless it that wasn’t the greatest match with cinnamon. What could be higher is chocolate avocado frosting, but they're huge eaten simply on their own.

I made those with a tablespoon of cinnamon the primary time and this was method too a lot even although I love cinnamon. If you desire a sweeter dessert chew then upload a handful of dates. For savoury go away out the cinnamon and higher with anything like avocado mashed with apple cider vinegar.


Did you recognise cinnamon is the moment most regularly occurring spice inside the US and China. The spice we use is the internal bark of a tree and can both be flooring or used as sticks.

Cinnamon originates from Sri Lanka and was the supply of conflicts as inside the previous it was grown in basically one region. Now its grown all throughout the international in tropical climates.


NOTES
To make those savory simply omit the cinnamon.
Leave the skins at the candy potatoes for optimum nutrition.
This will nonetheless be delicate whilst it’s taken out of the oven as it’s gluten unfastened and can agency up as soon as cooled.