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Steamed quinoa cake
Earthly Superfood
Steamed quinoa cake is a dense gluten-free cake suitable for a breakfast.
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Prep Time
30
minutes
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Cook Time
20
minutes
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Total Time
50
minutes
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Course
Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine
American
Servings
6
slices
Ingredients
To caramel the sugar
1/4
cup
sugar
1+1/2
tbsp+cup
water
Frying nuts
1
tbsp
coconut oil
1/3
cup
mixed nuts
1/4
cup
sliced dry coconut
For quinoa cake
1
cup
quinoa flour
1
cup
brown sugar
1/4
cup
cooked quinoa
1
cup
coconut milk
1
tsp
vanilla extract
salt
to taste
2
tbsp
coconut oil
Instructions
Caramelizing the sugar
In a saucepan bring sugar and 1 tbsp of water to heat. Keep stirring.
Slowly, the sugar starts to melt and will turn brown.
Immediately switch it off and and 1/2 cup of water, and mix well. Be careful, it may splash.
Keep aside
Frying nuts
Heat the pan with the coconut oil and add the mixed nuts and fry. Then add the coconut flakes and fry for 30 seconds and switch it off.
Preparing the batter
In the blender, add the quinoa flour, brown sugar, cooked quinoa, salt, caralized syrup, coconut milk, vanilla extract and blend it.
Steaming the batter
Choose the pan you are going to steam and add 2 tbsp of coconut oil to it.
Steam the pan with oil in pressure cooker or instant pot.
Remove it, while the pan is hot pour the batter add the roasted nuts and mix well. Add more nuts on the top if needed.
Steam covered for 15 minutes or cook till the toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean.
Allow it to cool and cut them into slices.
Keyword
gluten-free, quinoa flour cake, steamed cake