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Strange But Good: Cinnamon Toasted Quinoa and PB Eggs

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Start your day out toasted.

I crack myself up.

When I prep food I usually end up double-cooking it.  You get the groundwork done during your Sunday meal prep, but to keep it tasting fresh and crispy I pop it back in the oven before you eat.  Oven, not microwave.

Double-roasted is my favorite way to eat kabocha, and yesterday morning I did that with my quinoa.  Strange to do with stuff you already cooked, but oh-so-good.

Toasted Quinoa ingredients

Can you believe how cheap that giant thing of cinnamon was?! Love my farmer’s market.

This is really a non-recipe.  There are no measurements, only flavors you should adjust to your liking.  3 simple ingredients: my new English toffee liquid stevia from iHerb (you can use any sweetener), cinnamon, and ginger.

Basically, it tasted like cinnamon toast.  Much healthier than the butter-slathered stuff mom made us.  Add to that some bananas brushed with coconut oil and thrown under the broiler with the quinoa and you’ll wonder who put the dessert on your breakfast plate! 

Cinnamon Toasted Quinoa, Caramelized Banana and PB Eggs with Raspberries

The quinoa was prepped on Sunday (after I burned the beans), making it quick and easy to grab from the fridge to make this.  When you toast already-cooked quinoa, it becomes crunchy and granola-like.  The added texture was amazing on top of my PB eggs!

How do you make PB eggs?  I’ve posted them a lot in all my “Jegg” creations (there’s even a
vegan tofu version), but here’s the run down.

Peanut Butter Eggs

  • Mix peanut flour, cinnamon, butter extract, and a teeny bit of liquid stevia with enough water to make it a runny PB consistency
  • Prepare egg whites in a small pot until almost cooked
  • Stir in peanut flour and allow to cook the rest of the way (~30 secs)

PSA: It’s also awesome on top of a protein-rich bowl Chocolate Zucchini Bread Batter (this recipe, but with chocolate protein powder).

Cinnamon Toasted Quinoa with Caramelized Banana and PB Eggs

Cinnamon Toasted Quinoa

  • Quinoa, cooked
  • Liquid stevia (I used toffee)
  • Cinnamon
  • Ginger

Toss together all ingredients and spread evenly on a piece of non-stick foil

Place in over under the broiler until crisp.  Watch closely – it’s easy to burn on broil!

Remove from oven, top your eggs (or yogurt, salad, etc).

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There aren’t many (any?) things I say this about, but caramelized bananas could honestly replace dessert.

Quinoa for breakfast: yay or nay? Yay!

Have you ever tried peanut butter eggs?  How about just sweet eggs?

Comments

  1. I will so be trying this as a fun topping! I am a cinnamon-fanatic and always pour it on everything!
    I love sweetleafs single packet stevia and have been trying to decide if I should splurge and try a liquid form. I never tried liquid Stevie only the powder, but also only sweetleaf. Soviet am guessing you would rec

    • No joke! I think the only thing I wouldn’t eat it on is cooked broccoli (because I don’t like it).

    • I swear to you it’s good! Think french toast or bread pudding – that just sweet eggs and bread. 🙂

  7. I made your pb&jeggs post workout the other day and LOVED it, so this new take on it- especially cinnamon toast like will no doubt be a winner! Are you fan of the sweetleaf stevia? I tried this other brand from iherb (forgot the name but it was cinnamon flavoured) and it was like a chemical cough medicine!

    • This is the first time I’ve tried sweet leaf, but I do like it. My favorite is the chocolate NuNatruals.

  9. First thing that popped into my mind when I read the title of your recipe? Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal – kind of obsessed with that stuff in a wonderful but horrible way. Your version of it is probably much healthier 😛

    • I can’t believe I didn’t go there – GiGi said the same thing! I bet you could crisp a bunch of this, let it cool, and pour milk over it. 🙂

  14. This recipe looks so good. Quinoa is the bomb diggity…so versatile and delicious when mixed with the right ingredients! I’ll take leftover quinoa/veggie/meat mix and top with a runny egg for breakfast. YUMMM!

  16. i will love cinnamon toasted quinoa! i just love quinoa so much and when you posted it on top of your yogurt it reminded me of my blended cc and quinoa days! i couldn’t go a day without it! gotta prep some quinoa for myself now!

  17. That stevia sounds yummy. I’ve got a hazelnut that I love (brand is NOW). I need to check out the butter extract. I know you use it often. I need to just print off all of your odd yummy recipes and make them!

      • I like it. I had originally had NOW before NuNaturals. I’m a bit unhappy with NuNaturals though. They’ve changed their liquid stevia and it now has that strange bitter taste to it. I actually emailed thinking maybe I ended up with a bad batch or something and they said they had indeed changed it b/c of their stevia supplier.

  19. I know I should trust your strange but good concoctions, but peanut butter eggs give me pause, even the vegan version. The cinnamon toasted quinoa sounds great though (so did the memory of the cinnamon toast that mom used to make!).

  20. Oh you know, I am aaaaall about sweet eggs. It’s almost the only way I’d eat them! Same goes for Quinoa. Quinoa&Cinnamon….heaven!! And suuure for breakfast!!
    I just got some Coconut Flour….maybe I could try Coconut eggs?

    • Coconut flour eggs… I never thought to do that! It could be awesome or gross due to the texture. LOL!

  21. The only thing I don’t like about quinoa for breakfast is that it I never seem to get it to be fluffy enough. Something about the volume. HOWEVER, I do love it, and I love that you described it as cinnamon toast, because I can’t tell you how many times over the summer I was so tempted to actually go buy butter–something I don’t normally have–just to recreate that deliciousness of cinnamon sugar buttery joy. 🙂

    Wonder if this would work with rice?

  23. Want to know something worse than butter-slatered cinnamon toast (which I also dominated)? My mom used to make us frosted cinnamon brown sugar Pop-Tarts … slathered in butter. Yessss. I think I’ll resort to your alternative from here on out :).

  24. Oh this sounds really good! I’m kind of strange in that sometimes I like to eat things a little burnt, this double toasted quinoa sounds right up with my favorite food choices! I haven’t ever tried to broil a banana but I’m sure it goes great with this cinnamon breakfast!

  27. HOLY FRIGGIN YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so short of time otherwise I would write more AND to make up for your disappointment with my FB comment – I would make naked boob jokes!!!! 🙂

  29. Mmm, I love the idea of PB with eggs (well PB with almost anything, really!). One of my favorite things to pair with eggs is cinnamon and maple syrup… Sometimes a little strawberry jam if I’m feeling fiesty!

    P.S. your Facebook unemployment posts each day are making me smile!

    • Yes ma’am! It’s like french toast… minus the toast. 😉

      P.S. Thank you!!! Employment starts tomorrow!

  31. Huge score on that farmers market cinnamon. Can you grab me one the next time you go?! I really like the combination of cinnamon and ginger, and I like the idea of toasting the quinoa to make it crispy. Nicely done.

  32. I wasn’t really in a hunt for quinoa out here but now I’m dying for some! The one thing I miss is cereal as I love a bowl every now and than but this will be my go to 🙂 protein quinoa what more could you want! Thanks for sharing 🙂 love + shine Courtstar

    • Ohhhh… or a quinoa version of the zucchini bread oatmeal I used to make a lot. It’s been too long!

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