These are absolutely delicious. Put them in pita bread, a burger bun, or on mini skewers and serve them as appetizers at parties. Use your imagination and serve them any way you like, with salads or in a roll with lettuce cucumber and tomatoes. If you can’t have dairy products they taste just as delicious without the feta cheese. In one of the photos these patties are served on a gluten and yeast free naan bread that I made at home.
Chicken, quinoa and feta patties with avocado and tomato salsa
Prep Time: 30 min
Cooking time 20 min
Makes approx 12 patties
Chicken Patties:
500 g lean chicken mince
1/4 cup uncooked quinoa
2 sprigs shallots/spring onions
1/4 cup chopped fresh coriander
100 g crumbled feta
2 Tablespoons plain flour (I use gluten free flour)
1 tea-spoon sea salt
1/4 tea-spoon cracked black pepper
1/4 tea-spoon chilli (optional)
olive oil or grape-seed oil for pan-frying
Avocado and Tomato Salsa:
2 ripe Avocados
1 large firm tomato
1 sprig shallots
2 Tablespoons coriander
1/2 tea-spoon sea salt
juice of 1/2 lemon
To make Chicken Patties:
Rinse quinoa really well and place in either a pot on top of stove or microwave with a cup of water and bring to boil and simmer. Cook for about 15 minutes or 10 minutes on high in microwave. In the meantime, place chicken mince in a bowl. Wash coriander and shallots, chop finely and add to chicken mince. Add salt, pepper, flour and feta. Drain and rinse cooked quinoa under cold water. Squeeze out excess water and place on top of chicken mince. Mix all ingredients really well. Place a bowl of cold water on the side. Wet your hands and get two heaped tablespoons of mixture and form into a 1 cm thick patties (photo below). Place a tiny drizzle of oil in a non-stick frying pan and pan fry patties on medium heat. They will cook in a few minutes. Make sure they are golden before you turn to other side and test to make sure they are cooked right through.
To make Avocado and tomato salsa.
Peel and dice avocado. Place in a bowl, dice tomatoes and add on top. Add salt, chopped shallots and coriander, sea salt and lemon juice and mix together.
To serve, place on a naan bread (optional) after heating it in oven or in a pan, top with a chicken patty, put a heaped tablespoon of salsa on top, repeat with patty and salsa and serve immediately. It is delicious with a green or garden salad on the side.
Chicken, quinoa and feta patties with avocado and tomato salsa
Chicken, quinoa and feta patties with avocado and tomato salsa
Raw chicken patties about to be pan-fried
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Thanks a ton. Unfortunately north-east Brazil doesn’t have any of that. I could try with fresh white cheese. Maybe that’ll work.
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Yes give it a go and see. Remember that fetta is a bit salty so adjust your salt accordingly. Btw they are also quite tasty without the cheese. Good luck 🙂
This looks amazing. I can’t get feta cheese where I live. I’m going to check out google to see if it’s possible to somehow make it.
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Hi Stacilys, bocconcini or halloumi cheeses work really well too. Not sure if they are available where you live. Good luck
You made a beautiful presentation there!
Thank you so much :))
What a wonderful dish to make for summer evening dinners alfresco. The colors and textures are so pretty and bright. With a glass of cold crisp wine this would make me happy.
That sounds perfect to me Teresa, Enjoy 🙂
Wow, yum! I love the flavor combination, particularly with the feta and avocado salsa! Looks delicious, thanks for sharing.
You are most welcome 🙂 you also have some lovely recipe ideas, I enjoy your blog.
That all looks so good!!!
Thanks Elaine it tasted superb, hope u get to try it 🙂
Me too!
Oops I forgot that you are a vegetarian though lol I’ll have to do a recipe that is meat free haha
No worries! Is the flavours I like so I’m sure I could figure out a meat free version 🙂
I guess you could use more quinoa of course, add some lemon to the patties for extra flavour, and more flour and an egg or two to bind it together. That should do it.
Fab! Sounds good to me 🙂
Perhaps a tea-soon of cumin too, quinoa needs extra flavour when used on its own… Let me know how u go 🙂
Will do 🙂