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Quinoa Loaf with Easy, Sticky Ketchup Glaze

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Easy, baked quinoa loaf smothered in sweet ketchup glaze. Fix your sides while the loaf bakes, and supper is ready in about an hour and a half.

Easy, baked quinoa loaf recipe smothered in sweet ketchup glaze. #KetchupWithFrenchs #spon

I dished up this easy quinoa loaf with some of my Perfect Mashed Potatoes and a super simple kale salad. You can fix the sides while the loaf is in the oven, so supper is on the table in just over an hour.

My kid is super picky right now, and ketchup is the secret to getting him to eat things that he might otherwise say no to. Kale salad? NO! Kale salad with ketchup to dip? YES! I’ll take it.

Easy, baked quinoa loaf recipe smothered in sweet ketchup glaze. #KetchupWithFrenchs #spon

One of his strange, picky things right now is that he doesn’t like veggie burgers or veggie loaves. That’s a real bummer, because Dave and I love a veggie loaf! To make this loaf appeal to my picky child, I started with my usual lentil loaf recipe and made some changes make it a little bit more kid-friendly. Then I added a sweet, sticky ketchup glaze to seal the deal.

#KetchupWithFrenchs #spon

Look at this little ham sandwich!

Actually, there’s ketchup in the loaf dough AND in the glaze. This thing is basically ketchup held together with quinoa and lentils. And my kid ATE IT! Success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYi-MHlOi7

Tomatoes are beautiful and taste great already, so you don’t need all of that processed, artificial stuff in a good ketchup! With a ketchup-obsessed kid like mine, it makes me feel better knowing that I can choose convenience without having to give him something full of ingredients that I’m not crazy about.

Quinoa Loaf, Ready to go into the Pan

Quinoa Loaf, Ready to go into the Pan – I used black quinoa in the loaf dough pictured, but I’ve also made this with red and with white quinoa. Use what you have!

Easy, baked quinoa veggie loaf recipe smothered in sweet ketchup glaze. #KetchupWithFrenchs #spon

Easy, baked quinoa loaf recipe smothered in sweet ketchup glaze. #KetchupWithFrenchs #spon

Quinoa Loaf with Ketchup Glaze

The prep time includes the time it takes to make the lentils in the pressure cooker and quinoa on the stovetop. You can mix up the ketchup glaze and the rest of the loaf dough and preheat the oven while those are cooking.
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Vegan
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 269kcal
Author: Becky Striepe

Ingredients

For the Ketchup Glaze

  • 1/2 cup French’s Ketchup
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon sea salt

For the Quinoa Loaf

  • 1/2 cup cashews
  • 1 cup cooked quinoa
  • 1 3/4 cups cooked brown or green lentils (or a 15 oz. can of brown or green lentils
  • 1/2 cup minced sweet onion
  • 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
  • 1/2 cup French’s Ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons flax meal
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce

Instructions

Make the Ketchup Glaze

  • In a small bowl, whisk together the French’s Ketchup, brown sugar, and sea salt. Set aside.

Make the Quinoa Loaf

  • Preheat the oven to 350F, and line your loaf pan with parchment paper (NOT wax paper).
  • In your blender, puree the cashews into a flour. Think the consistency of cornmeal.
  • Combine the cashew flour with the quinoa, lentils, onion, nutritional yeast, ketchup, flax meal, and soy sauce. Mix well, then spread into your loaf pan, smoothing out the top with your fork or the back of a spoon. Slather the Ketchup Glaze over the top.
  • Bake for one hour, then let the loaf cool for 15 minutes on the counter before you gently pop it out of the pan with the parchment paper and serve.

Notes

You can cook the lentils and quinoa on the stovetop, in the pressure cooker, or even in the rice cooker. Below are some resources for you: Get directions for how to cook quinoa here. To cook the lentils on the stove, combine 2/3 cups lentils with 1 1/3 cups water, and simmer on the stovetop until they're tender, about 20-30 minutes, adding more water, if needed. Drain. To cook the lentils in the pressure cooker, combine 2/3 cups lentils with 1 1/3 cups water, and cook for 6 minutes at high pressure with a natural release. If your lentils are older, they may still be slightly crunchy at this point. If that's the case, cook at pressure for 2 more minutes, do a quick release, and taste again for doneness. Repeat for another 1 minute at pressure, if needed. Drain, if there's excess water.

Nutrition

Calories: 269kcal
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About Becky Striepe

(rhymes with “sleepy”) is a vegan food writer and cookbook author. She been vegan since 2006 and developing simple vegan recipes since 2008.

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  6. Dreena

    February 9, 2017 at 11:29 am

    K, first, LOVE the pic of your wee boy with the ketchup. Soooo cute. I swear our girls think ketchup is a food group. :-/
    Anyhow!!! This looks delicious, Becky, and I think just saying “sticky ketchup glaze” would get any kid excited about dinner. Adults too.

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  11. Jenn

    February 7, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    I love a good veggie loaf too. My kids seem to always turn up their nose when I say we are having “meatloaf”, but if I honestly made the same exact thing in burger form, they would devour it. Kids!! And, yay, to real sugar and not heavily processed crap! 🙂

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