Spaghetti Squash, Quinoa And Parmesan Fritters

Spaghetti Vine, Quinoa and Parmesan Fritters - scrumptious, levelheaded snack that everybody in your bloodline faculty object.

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Significant Locomote: After you hardened the crush, cooled it, and injured it with a lift to remove the flesh in extendable strands, wring out the spaghetti vine by wrap portions of it in packing towels and compressing harsh with your safekeeping over the imbed. Be provident not to drop the spaghetti mash into the imbed if the wadding towel breaks. Try to get rid of as overmuch liquidity as you can. Then, mix in the spaghetti squash with the intermit of the ingredients.

Tone that the instruction includes vegetable which I mainly add because it makes fritters statesman brave, and it also adds metropolis flavour. You can see that spinach is Nonobligatory in my foodstuff enumerate, as I mainly add it for coloring.

If you e'er prefabricated crepes, you present experience that making fritters is rattling confusable to making crepes in cost of how hot you poverty to get your pan for the real initial wad of fritters.

Ingredients

• Spaghetti squash fritters
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup flour (for gluten free version, use multi-purpose gluten-free King Arthur flour)
• 2 cups spaghetti squash , cooked and wringed out (see below)
• 2 cups quinoa , cooked
• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese shredded
• ¼ cup spinach fresh, finely chopped (OPTIONAL)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Garnish
• 2 green onions chopped
• dollop of sour cream or Greek Yogurt

Instructions

1. How to cook spaghetti squash:
2. The recipe requires 2 CUPS COOKED spaghetti squash. First 5 steps describe how to cook spaghetti squash (this can be done 1 or more days in advance):
3. Preheat oven to 425 Fahrenheit.
4. Cut the squash in 2 halves, scrape out the seeds and the fiber out of each half. Spray oil over the cut sides of the squash. Spray the baking sheet with oil and place the squash on the baking sheet cut side down.
5. Bake for about 30-40 minutes. Remove it from the oven when it's cooked through and soft, and let it cool. Flip the squash so that cut side faces up – that will speed up the cooling. After squash cools, scrape squash with a fork to remove flesh in long strands and transfer to a bowl. Let it cool.
6. Important: Wring out the spaghetti squash by wrapping small portions of it in paper towels and squeezing hard with your hands over the sink. Be careful not to drop the spaghetti squash into the sink if the paper towel breaks. Try to get rid of as much liquid as you can.
7. Cooked spaghetti squash can be refrigerated for 5 days. I prefer to cook spaghetti squash, refrigerate it and make fritters the next day or 2 days later - that allows spaghetti squash to drain the liquid out and get dryer, which is preferable for fritters.
8. Now, on to how to make fritters:
9. In a large bowl, using electric mixer, beat 2 eggs on high speed for 1-2 minutes. Add flour and continue beating for about 30 seconds to combine. To the same bowl, add spaghetti squash, quinoa, Parmesan cheese, finely chopped spinach, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Mix very well until all the mixture has uniform consistency. Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary, even though it should be just perfect.
10. Heat a large skillet on high-medium heat until VERY hot. Only then add olive oil. It should sizzle and smoke right away. Using a tablespoon, spoon the tablespoon-ful of the batter for each fritter and drop on the skillet. Using a spatula, correct the shape of each fritter, making it flatter and rounder. Cook until the bottom side of each fritter is golden brown, about 1-2 minutes. Reduce heat to medium. Using spatula, flip fritters to the opposite side, and cook 1-2 more minutes. When flipping the fritters, you can use a spoon on the opposite side of spatula to help push each fritter onto the spatula and then flipping. Turn off the heat and let the fritters sit in the skillet (uncovered) for 2-3 more minutes (check the bottom to make sure it's not burned - if it is too dark, remove fritters from the skillet immediately). Do 4 fritters at a time.
11. Serve as is, or top with the dollop of sour cream or Greek yogurt and chopped green onions (delicious if served this way!).

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