Buffalo Quinoa Balls with Ranch Dipping Sauce
- Preparing Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Served Person: 20
- salt & pepper to taste
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
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- 1/2 tsp fresh dill
- for quinoa balls
- 1.5 c cooked quinoa cooled
- 1 15 oz can of cannellini beans drained and rinsed
- 1 flax egg (1 tb flax meal & 3 tb water - let sit 10
- 4 tb buffalo sauce (see below)
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs (gluten free optional)
- 1 tb nutritional yeast
- olive or coconut oil for frying
- for buffalo sauce
- 3 tb vegan butter (i use earth balance) or coconut oil
- 1/2 c hot sauce (i use frank's red hot)
- for ranch dipping sauce
- 1.5 c raw cashews soaked overnight or in hot water for 10 mins
- 8 tb non-dairy milk (i used almond)
- 2.5 tb apple cider vinegar
- 1 tb nutritional yeast
- 1/2 tb fresh chives chopped
- Carbohydrate 7.66356851201923 g
- Cholesterol 0 mg
- Fat 5.15246044070513 g
- Fiber 1.10220791185313 g
- Protein 2.88934895753205 g
- Saturated Fat 0.949858318269231 g
- Serving Size 1 1 ball (31g)
- Sodium 19.1881208733974 mg
- Sugar 6.5613606001661 g
- Trans Fat 0.552929454767628 g
- Calories 84 calories
Add all of the sauce ingredient in a small saucepan and heat until butter is melted and set aside.Add beans to food processor and mix until smooth (you may need to add a tablespoon of water to get it smooth). If you do not have a food processor, you can mash them with your hands but the texture will be a little less smooth.In a large bowl, combine the bean mixture, flax egg and 3 TB of sauce. Then add cooled quinoa, bread crumbs, nutritional yeast, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and salt.Take quinoa mixture and form into about 1" balls (sometimes mine get a little larger).Heat oven to 350 degrees.Heat 2-3 TB of oil (depending on how large you pan is) and fry quinoa balls for about 5 minutes flipping so that all sides get cooked. I usually do this in 2-3 batches.Place balls on cookie pan and bake for 15 mins.While balls are baking, make the ranch dipping sauce by adding all the ingredients to a bowl and mixing.When balls are done baking, you can coat them in the rest of buffalo sauce. Or what I like to do is keep them a bit more crunchy and only put the sauce on each ball right before I eat each one.Serve with dipping sauce on the side.
