Hot Banana Quinoa Breakfast Cake

I’ve explained before how set in my ways I am about my breakfast.  Little is good enough to make it in the lineup alongside my morning oatmeal.  This is.

It kind of goes like this: Bread Pudding meets Banana Bread one particular spring evening.  They bond over their mutual breadiness, things get hot, and the next thing you know, they have a love child… a love child with 17 grams of protein and 7 grams of fiber, that will keep you full through lunch.

You can speed things up by making a batch of quinoa ahead of time and storing it in the fridge.  Do this, and you can definitely make this quinoa cake on a weekday morning before work.

Hot Banana Quinoa Breakfast Cake

From The Wannabe Chef

For 1 serving:

• 1 banana, mashed
• 1/3 cup cooked quinoa
• 2 eggs (I used 1 egg and 3 tbsp (1 egg worth) liquid egg white; I imagine you could do any combination of egg/egg white/liquid egg white but I haven’t tried)
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon (I don’t really measure)
• Sweetener of choice (I used 3 packets Splenda)
• For topping: 1 tbsp Peanut butter, 1 tbsp jelly, and/or other toppings of choice (also phenomenal with vanilla Greek Yogurt and maple syrup or honey!)

Johanna