It’s not very often that the words “cookies” and “healthy” can be used in the same sentence. Even when the are, how often are they also delicious? This time they are!
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cooked quinoa
- 1/2 cup peanut butter (chunky or smooth)
- 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup unsweetened, shredded coconut (I left these out)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine quinoa, peanut butter, maple syrup, salt, and oats in a large mixing bowl. Using an electric mixer on low/medium speed, combine ingredients well.
Tip: Allow the quinoa to cool before mixing it in.
3. Stir in coconut and chocolate chips.
4. Scoop and mold dough into round, tablespoon-sized cookies.
5. Place cookies on parchment-paper-lined baking sheets and bake for approximately 20 minutes, until bottoms are nicely browned.
6. Allow to cool completely before storing.
If you are wondering why mine look so dark brown, that would be because I didn’t allow the quinoa to cool before adding the chocolate chips. Whoops! It wasn’t so bad though. The chocolate chips and peanut butter melted together very nicely. These were even better than I expected them to be!
Source:
The G-Spot Revolution
Oooooh! I can’t wait to try these!!! I love when fun gluten friendly things like this are posted!
How many servings/cookies did this batch make? Trying to calculate WW points!
The original pin said 16-18, but I think I got closer to 24 out of my batch.
Would you mind sharing the WW points? Thanks!
if your batch yields 24. its 3 WW points per cookie
Please post your results. I’m a WW too! These look good!
could you use cocoa powder in place of choc chips? I have everything but the chips, but
I have a lot of cocoa!
I tried it with the cocoa. I used 1/2 cup in place of the choc chips, that was probably a lil too much, though, they still taste ok. because of tha lack of sweetness from choc chips, and added bitterness from the cocoa, I rolled them in cinnamon-sugar before baking. after baking for the 20 minutes it called for, the bottoms were more done than the sides and obviously the top, nut I think that’s due to my old oven! All in all, I like them, but I am sure I would like them more with the choc chips instead of the cocoa powder!
These are delicious!! I used agave nectar instead of maple syrup and sweetened coconut. Scrumptious!!! Thanks for the great recipe!
Awesome! I finally picked up some agave so I’ll be using that the next time I make them too. I’m glad you liked them!
So how much dry quinoa do you cook? Because wouldn’t 2 cups of dry quinoa end up being more than 2 cups cooked?
2 cups of cooked quinoa = 1/2 cup dry quinoa.
http://lowcaloriecooking.about.com/od/grains/ss/howtocookquinoa.htm
does anyone know an estimated calorie range for these?
For the batch, myfitnesspro.com has it listed as about 1274. That is roughly 50ish calories per cookie.
How do I print this recipe, without all the pages of comments following? Thanks, Jo
Jo, for right now, your best bet would be to copy and paste just the recipe into a document and print that. I need to find a way to incorporate a Print Recipe button to make it easier for you guys.
You can highlight the text, then choose “file” “print selection”
Can you freeze a few extras to save for later? I made a bit extra before realizing the dry quinoa ratio.
Hmmm I’m not sure. I usually freeze unmade cookie dough but haven’t tried with these yet.
I just made these and they were falling apart…any idea what I did wrong? I had cooled my quinoa in the fridge over night….
Hmmm I’m not sure. Did you make any substitutions to the recipe? Mine stayed together well.
For some recipes like this one if the air is really dry the cookies can crumble…when that is the case I add a little extra of the liquid or most ingredients…so a smidge more of maple syrup and/or peanut butter maybe
Sorry typo…should say extra liquid or moist ingredients
I added an egg and a little (1/8c?) coconut palm sugar… They came out pretty good!
I added 1 egg and they held together well. I had to flatten them before baking. We love these…my 3 yr old too!
I substituted half a banana for half of the peanut butter. delicious!
*whole banana for 1/2 the pb
Ok, made these last nite. I think yours stayed together because your quinoa was hot and the melted chocolate chips was the glue. These were a little disappointing, they fell apart even after adding more nut butter so I needed to rescue these with an added egg. I had to omit chocolate chips and maple syrup due to sugar restrictions (subbed maple flavoring and stevia). Oh we’ll, you win some you lose some.
That’s true, Cyndee. I never thought about the melted chocolate acting like glue to hold mine together. I think you might be right!
Mine came out like delicious macaroons. The coconut made a huge difference in the flavor and the consistency. Loved them!
I wondered about them holding together when I started to put them on the cookie sheet. I use a spring loaded cookie scoop. I made sure to load it fully and press it against the bowl well. I think that this helped although I bet using warm quinoa and having the melted chocolate works even better
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These are AH-MAZING! Followed directions as written but omitted coconut. Came out perfect! I used a cookie scoop and really smushed the dough in there, so no “sticking together” issue here. Thanks
Tried it yesterday. First batch came out a little dry and you couldn’t even taste the peanut butter or chocolate really. So the second batch I added more peanut butter and some more chocolate chips. Pretty good! Thanks
Such a wonderful creative idea to use quinoa for such a beautiful sweetness!
Sound good ~ will try soon
I just made these today and they are very good. I had to supplement the pnut butter with almond butter and I added in an egg. I also bought one of my dairy-free dark chocolate bars and chopped it into chunks so that I would have a dairy-free and gluten free cookie. This is a wonderfuly, healthy cheat!
I loved these, but actually liked them better before baking them! I think they tasted yummy raw with the cooked quinoa. I think next time I will try, just for fun -running the oats, quinoa and coconut through a food processor to smooth it out a bit. Oh – we are diabetic so we sub coconut oil sweetened with stevia for the syrup. Thanks for sharing!!!
These cookies taste great but I found I had to do a lot of tweaking first batch fell apart and took forever to bake so after I read others comments I added an egg a bit more peanut butter and a bit more syrop and they turned out wonderful still at 350 took quite sometime so my next batch I did 375 and it took the original time of 20min…still worth the work they are healthier then chocolate chip from the store and taste good
These cookies have become a staple at our house!! I mostly follow the original recipe (no coconut), I just found that we like them a little better if we mix everything while the quinoa is still hot…we like them better when the chocolate chips melt in with the mix!! My husband requests these regularly and my kiddos love them!! Thanks for the recipe!!
Awesome! Yes, the melted chocolate was a good mistake. I much prefer them melted too!
I just made these and I loved them! Thanks for the recipe!
These would be great for after my workouts. I was just looking for something with Quinoa in it, thank you I can’t wait to try this weekend.
only 2 points with no coconut and 24 cookies
These cookies are sooo good! And, my 3 year old son even loves them! I admit I added 1/4 cup of brown sugar, didn’t have the maple syrup. I think I could’ve used less though because they are plenty sweet enough. I also added dried cranberries and blended the oats and quinoa in the food processor to give them a more flour-like consistency. Thanks for this great recipe! Will make again!
Making these right now with almond butter instead of peanut butter…wanted to use sun butter, but I left it at school…also, I spread mine in a glass pan and making them into bars…I’ll let you know how they turn out!
These are awesome! I halved the recipe and ate the whole batch :-/ Such a great alternative to the usual flour cookies. I will make these again and again! Thanks you for sharing!
Think I can freeze these?
Hmmmm I’ve actually never frozen quinoa before, so I’m not sure how that would be.
Just made these, and they were easy and oh sooo yummy! I’m getting 19 cookies at 147 cal each if anyone wants to know. Now, how do I eat just one?????