Thursday, January 24, 2013

Keanu cookies again

    OK, this time the keanu (that is, quinoa) cookies are really good. Possibly really, REALLY good. (Guinea pigs haven't turned up yet.) Also healthy. Shhh!
    Again, you begin by cooking your quinoa. As before, 1/4 C of quinoa and 1/2 C of water magically produce a cup of cooked quinoa. I use Ancient Harvest boxed quinoa because it's prewashed and follow package instructions. By and large, cooking 20 minutes with the burner set at 1 1/2 (once it had been brought to a boil) works pretty well. Then I sit the whole pot in a sink of cold water to cool it down.
    Start the "throw it all in a bowl" part by mixing 2T of EV olive oil with 4T of honey. I'm still getting good results by doing half a tablespoon of oil followed by one of honey, repeated four times. Unless you have a miraculous non-stick tablespoon, you might want to do the same. Crack, scramble and add a large egg. Mix in a quarter cup of almond milk. Mix in 1 tsp of vanilla extract. Mix in a small tub (1/2 C, or in any case 4 oz) natural or organic apple sauce. Mix in 1 tsp of Saigon cinnamon.
    About now is a good time to start preheating oven to 400 degrees.
    Add 1 C of brown rice flour. Add quinoa (hopefully one cup). Add small box (1.5 oz.) of seedless raisins. Chop 1 C of raw almonds (I use a food chopper) and add.
    Lay out parchment paper on your cookie sheet, pizza pan or whatever. Spoon out whatever looks cookie-sized to you. (Mine are about two inches around.) Bake for ten minutes. I turn off the oven, flip the cookies and put them back in for five minutes to firm them up. Makes a damn lot. (Two dozen, say. Hard to say, as they're so great I ate a half dozen or so before they went back in the oven.)

2 comments:

  1. Shared this with my daughter who likes quinoa a lot and who writes a whole a food blog

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