Tofu and Quinoa Patties

What is a healthy recipe, anyway? For me, the simple answer always is staying away from processed food, eating too much red meat, and not eating enough vegetables. When preparing food for my family, I always make them stay meatless for two or three meals per week. This is an effort to reduce consumption of certain key staples, such as meat, in our daily diets. This being said, the positive health benefits of cutting down on saturated fat in food dishes demonstrated in simple recipes located throughout my blog since I stated. I hope today’s recipe will be the key recipe for a meatless day, and I wish to help whoever comes to my blog will always have a healthy, happy life.

Ingredients;
One 12 oz. firm tofu
1/2 cup cooked quinoa
1/2 cup cooked lentils
1/2 cup cooked red beans or any cooked beans of your choice
1/2 cup total of a combination of chopped carrots, celery, and mushrooms
1/4 cup chopped green onions
2 tbs chopped cilantro
1 egg
Spices:
1 tsp fresh mined ginger
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 tsp cayenne
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tbs soy sauce
Other ingredients:
1/4 cup peanut, coconut oil, or olive oil
Sesame seeds

Directions:
Squeeze out as much of the water from the tofu as you can (you can place the tofu on a sieve and place a heavy object on top to do this).
In a small sauté pan, heat 2 tbs oil. Stir in ginger and garlic and cook until fragrant. Add chopped carrot, celery, and mushrooms. Stir and cook until the vegetables are wilted.

Combine all the cooked vegetables, tofu, quinoa, lentil, green onions, cilantro, and beans in a food processor or blender. Add spices, Process the mixture until it has a consistency that you can mold into patties.

Shape into ten patties. Sprinkle each patty with sesame seeds.

Place 1 or 2 tbs of oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add as many patties as will fit in the skillet, and fry them for two or three minutes per side (turn just once).

 

 Continue until all 10 patties have been fried.
Wrap the patty in a leaf of lettuce to serve with sweet soy dipping sauce.