Buffalo White Bean Quinoa Bites(Gluten Free with a Vegan Option)

I hope you like spicy food!  I don’t know why, but I go through phases where I just need something spicy.  Of course with little kids and a hubby that doesn’t really do spicy food I don’t make anything too spicy on a regular basis, but sometimes I just need a little something spicy.  I even put a little sriracha into some homemade veggie (baked!) spring rolls the other day and while I thought it wasn’t enough to really notice, my 5 year old sure let me know it wasn’t OK.  Oops.  On a side note, my 5 year old that will eat anything complained while my sometimes picky 3 year old scarfed them down.  I’m not sure what that means.

Moving on!  These are so much fun.  Come on, who doesn’t love a bite sized appetizer?  Or you know, a whole bunch of bite sized things for a meal or snack.  And the fact that they’re buffalo flavored just makes me swoon.  But I always see buffalo paired with chicken so I thought I’d do a vegetarian twist on that and use white beans instead.  Yummy!

I dipped these lovelies in some Greek yogurt ranch dressing(which I will share the recipe for soon now that I have fresh herbs!) but I think something with blue cheese would be great too, obviously.  On the other hand, I did make some of these vegan so a different dipping sauce may be in order if that’s the route you’re going to go.

Wanna know the best thing about baking quinoa?  Crispy edges!  Even the white beans in these get a little crispy if they’re near the edges.  Yum!

So… even though I feel like I should, I’m not even going to attempt to say anything about the little break I went on.  Again.  After I said I was back.  Sorry!  Instead I’m just going to get back to regular posting and pretend like it never happened.

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Buffalo White Bean Quinoa Bites

Author Heidi @ Food Doodles

Servings 24 bites

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Ingredients

  

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• 1 C cooked quinoa approx. 1/2C quinoa cooked in 1C water
• 1 C small white beans drained and rinsed
• 1 clove garlic minced
• 2 green onions finely chopped
• 1 stalk celery finely chopped
• 1 tbsp flour I used oat flour, use whatever flour you regularly use, whole wheat, GF, etc
• 1/3 C Buffalo sauce I used Franks
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/4 - 1/2 C mozzarella cheese or alternative if desired

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a mini muffin tin generously and set aside.
• Stir together the cooked quinoa, white beans, garlic, green onions, celery, flour and buffalo sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Add a spoonful of the buffalo quinoa to each mini muffin cup and press down firmly.
• Place in the oven and bake 20-25 minutes, adding the cheese if desired in the last 5 minutes and then baking just until bubbly. Remove and cool 3-4 minutes before removing.
• For easy removal from the baking tray place a cooling rack on top of the mini muffin tin and simply flip them oven together, the bites should fall out. Simply flip them over and serve.

Notes

These bites may be slightly crumbly. Be sure to press them down well before baking them and if you're not making these vegan consider stirring an egg into the quinoa mixture before baking to help them hold together better.

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