I have joined a new group called Crazy Ingredient Challenge. This group was started up by Jutta from Hungry Little Girl. This month's challenge was cauliflower and chocolate. When I first head these two combination I thought.... WHAT??? I am not a big cauliflower fan, I can eat it raw occasionally but not cooked. So, what was I going to do. I had been to a Dove Chocolate Tasting Party and bought some Sweet 'N' Spicy Cocoa Rub and also Roasted Chipotle Chocolate Salsa so thought I could use this as my chocolate part of the recipe.
My first idea was just to use the rub on the cauliflower. I was BBQing and thought this would be perfect. I sprinkled some EEVO and the rub on the cauliflower, placed it on the BBQ. Well, although it wasn't awful, it wasn't so great either... So back to the drawing board I went.
I did some searching for recipes with these two ingredients. I found lots of chocolate cake recipes with cauliflower... but they didn't interest me. I found recipes that you make cooked cauliflower and add cocoa.. tried that and didn't really like it. I am not sure how I even got onto some recipes for Quinoa Bites but I did and I had an Aha moment... I could do quinoa bites with cauliflower and the salsa and the recipe began.
Chocolate Cauliflower Quinoa Bites
Ingredients:
For Bites
1 cup cooked quinoa
1/4 cup cooked wild rice
1 cup cooked mashed cauliflower *(see note)
1/8 cup diced onions
1 egg
salt and pepper to taste
Parmesan Cheese
For Dip
1/4 cup greek yogurt - I used Chobani yogurt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix quinoa, wild rice, cauliflower, salsa, onions, egg, salt and pepper together. Place in mini muffin tins or drop from small cookie scoop. Sprinkle with a little Parmesan cheese. Bake for 12 -15 minutes until golden brown.
For dip: Mix yogurt and cocoa rub.
* Notes: I cooked my cauliflower and then put it through the food processor.
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| Enjoy. |
