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Quinoa Pizza Bites

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Quinoa Pizza Bites Recipe. A fun way to sneak a healthy superfood into your diet. This makes a great healthy appetizer for parties, super bowl or backyard BBQs.

Awhile back I shared the benefits of adding Quinoa to your diet. In case you missed it, quinoa is a magical super food that is gluten free, full of antioxidants, nutrient dense and more. The thing with quinoa though is you either love it or hate it.

I fall in the I love it camp, I can eat it plain the same way I eat rice. If it’s prepared properly (rinsed thoroughly before cooking) I could eat it with every meal. My kids and husband fall into the hate it category. It was really frustrating to stumble upon this amazing super food only to have my kids refuse to eat it.

I have never been one to back down from a challenge, so I decided to get my quinoa creativity flowing and come hell or high water I was going to find a way to get my kids to like quinoa. IT.IS.ON.

The only thing I knew I could get all my kids to agree on is pizza, so I had to find a way to make quinoa work with pizza…. I thought about putting it on a pizza before the cheese, but that would be too obvious and they would know something was up. Then I remembered that they loved my quinoa egg muffins (until I told them they had quinoa in them…eye roll…) so I decided to take the same principal and that is how the Quinoa Pizza Bite came to life.

Quinoa Pizza Bites Recipe. A fun way to sneak a healthy superfood into your diet. This makes a great healthy appetizer for parties, super bowl or backyard BBQs.

It is actually quite brilliant. Mix it in with cheese, sauce and pepperoni and never, ever tell them that there is quinoa inside. I will take that secret to the grave. Kids, if you are reading this, mommy is totally kidding. There is absolutely no quinoa in the pizza bites.

Anyway, if you are looking for a way to trick, er, persuade the haters into eating some quinoa, this is the perfect place to start!

Quinoa Pizza Bites

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup cooked quinoa
  • 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup of marinara sauce
  • 1 clove minced garlic
  • 3 teaspoons Italian seasoning
  • 1 package of mini pepperoni or regular pepperoni cut up
  • Ranch or marinara sauce for dipping

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees
  2. Grease mini muffin pan.
  3. Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl
  4. Put approx a tablespoon into each muffin tin
  5. Pack them down, add more if needed
  6. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
  7. Cool on a wire rack for about 10 minutes and then remove from pan.
  8. Makes approx 24 pizza bites

Nutrition

7.8.1.2
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Happy cooking!

Quinoa Pizza Bites Recipe. A fun way to sneak a healthy superfood into your diet. This makes a great healthy appetizer for parties, super bowl or backyard BBQs.

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  1. Lela says

    June 24, 2015 at 1:23 am

    Yum! These looks delicious! I'd like to make these for my very pizza-loving son. I'd love for you to stop by my blog on Thursday and share one of your posts at my Link Party. Hope to see you there! --Lela @ www.inthenewhouse.com Lela recently posted...DIY Patriotic DishesMy Profile
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  2. Melinda says

    July 3, 2015 at 1:51 am

    Here from Monday Madness. Great job! Will my comment be purple? On only here in the comment box? I love purple! Thanks for the GF pizza bites! Melinda recently posted...Quiet Quote QuorumMy Profile
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