Mexican Quinoa Patties

I wanted to use my bean salad and quinoa that I had in the fridge, but I wanted to make it a little different. I remember looking for quinoa recipes and coming across different quinoa patty recipes and just used the same base to hold these together. All you really need to do to create that "glue" to hold any quinoa patty together is egg, whole wheat bread crumbs, and some type of low fat cheese. These turned out really good! I think these would be extremely good with some guacamole on the side!

Mexican Quinoa Patties

• 3/4 cup cooked and cooled quinoa

• 1 cup  Clean Redneck Caviar slightly mashed with potato masher

• 1 egg beaten

• 1/4 to 1/2 cup whole wheat breadcrumbs

• 1/4 tsp cumin

• 1/4 cup part skim mozzarella

• 1-2 tbsp. olive oil

 Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Place a golf ball size portion and shape into a ball and flatten into patties. This should make about 4 patties. Heat olive oil in nonstick skillet on medium heat. Place patties in pan an brown on both sides! Serve immediately!