Buffalo Chicken Quinoa Fritters Recipes

BUFFALO CHICKEN QUINOA BITES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 24 mini-muffin cups.
• Stir chicken, Buffalo wing sauce, cream cheese, egg, and egg white together in a large bowl until well-mixed. Add Cheddar cheese and green onion; stir. Stir quinoa into chicken mixture. Spoon mixture into prepared mini-muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until browned around the edges, 18 to 22 minutes.

BUFFALO CHICKEN FRITTERS

Steps:

• Whisk egg in a large mixing bowl. Add chicken, bread crumbs, wing sauce, celery, blue cheese, and carrot. Mix well until evenly combined.
• Form mixture into 6 patties and place on a baking sheet. Freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add fritters and cook, undisturbed, about 5 minutes. Carefully flip fritters and cook for 5 minutes more. Transfer patties to a paper towel-lined plate. Repeat with any remaining fritters.

BUFFALO CHICKEN-QUINOA BAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Bring quinoa and water to boil in medium saucepan; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 15 min. or until tender.
• Spoon quinoa into large bowl. Add all remaining ingredients except 1 cup shredded cheese; mix lightly. Spoon into 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray; top with remaining shredded cheese. (Or if preparing ahead of time, spoon into freezer-proof 13x9-inch pan sprayed with cooking spray. Wrap with foil. Freeze up to 3 months.)
• Bake 25 to 30 min. or until heated through. (Or if baking frozen casserole, unwrap casserole; cover with additional foil. Bake 1 hour 20 min. or until heated through, uncovering after 1 hour. Or thaw frozen casserole in refrigerator overnight. Bake, uncovered, 35 to 40 min. or until heated through.)

BUFFALO CHICKEN QUINOA FRITTERS

Steps:

• Simmer the quinoa in the water until the liquid has been absorbed and the quinoa is tender, about 15 minutes and let cool enough to handle.
• Mix the cooked quinoa with the chicken, hot sauce, onion, cheddar cheese, blue cheese, egg, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, adding more breadcrumbs if required to allow it to hold its shape.
• Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
• Spoon the mixture into the pan and form patties of any size that you desire and cook until golden brown on both sides, about 2-4 minutes per side, and set aside on paper towels to drain.

QUINOA FRITTERS

Steps:

• Put all ingredients except oil in bowl.
• Let mixture sit while you warm the pan to medium high. You don't want the oil to smoke.
• Put oil in pan and heat.
• Drop batter mixture (it should be quite thick and chunky) by teaspoonfuls in to the pan.
• Flatten each fritter slightly with a fork.
• Fry each side until golden brown.
• Blot excess oil on paper towel.
• Serve
• Note: These re-heat really well.