Mushroom Bites

These are like a falafel flavour wise but packed with meaty chestnut mushrooms, blitzed cauliflower and spices. Tasty as they are, would be great as part of a tapas selection with creamy yoghurt sauce 🙂

 
1 onion, chunked. 2 cloves of garlic. Freshly chopped parsley.

1 tsp of ground coriander, cumin, chilli powder, sweet paprika powder, sea salt, black pepper and 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.  Blitz this all together to make a paste. 

250g of mushrooms, chopped. Sauté in a little olive oil until cooked without much juice left in the pan.  Either finely chop or pulse until fine.  Important: squeeze excess moisture out. I did this by using a clean tea towel.  If you don’t do this all you’ve got is mush!

 
Combine mushrooms and paste in a bowl. Add a cup of grated cauliflower and a cup of almond flour as well as 1 beaten egg.  If mix is too wet add more flour. (Naturally you could use breadcrumbs instead of almond flour if wished).

 
Take spoonfuls, shape and place on a buttered tray then refrigerate for a good hour or so.

Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes. Allow to cool, they will firm up slightly. Hope you like them!