Protein: Pine nuts, Feta Cheese
Heavily adapted from Alexa Weitzman's awesome Blog: www.sustainablepantry.com. It is far and away my favorite website for vegetarian recipes along with the big recipe sites: www.recipezaar.com and www.food.yahoo.com. This is a modified version of her Quinoa-Stuffed Grape Leaves
Delicious with a dipping sauce of Yogurt (lowfat works), finely chopped cucumbers and mint.
Ingredients:
A Jar of grape leaves in water (some have very high sodium content, check the labels to go low)
1 cup quinoa (uncooked)
1/2 bag of toasted pine nuts
French feta cheese (this is creamier than most other feta cheeses)
1 apple, chopped
1 onion
1 Tbsp cinnamon
1. Boil quinoa, cinnamon and apple until soft and all water is absorbed
2. Sautee onion
2. Stir in pine nuts and onion, simmer for a minute or two
3. Blanche grape leaves (dip each leaf into a pot of boiling water for 30 seconds).
4. Fill the grape leaf with the quinoa mixture and a cumbling of the feta cheese and roll like a small burrito.
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