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Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce, Spinach and Artichokes {Gluten Free + Super Simple}

This easy, gluten free spinach artichoke quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form, that is sure to be a crowd pleaser! Cauliflower Alfredo sauce makes it extra creamy!

Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit

Oh tangy artichokes, combined with ooey-gooey salty Parmesan cheese and tender spinach, how do I love thee?

 For real,  I could go onandonandon with my love.  Especially when we’re talking about spinach and artichoke stuffed chicken breast.  BUT, today you guys, we have a new obsession to add to the potentially-super-long-list: spinach artichoke quinoa casserole WITHHHH cauliflower alfredo sauce.

AKA: super smooth and luscious, melty cheese swimming in CREAMY, secret-hidden-vegetables-say-WHAA-garlic-y sauce, vibrant, FRESH, HEALTHY spinach and bites of tangy artichokes allllll swirled around with chewy quinoa.

 Ummm HI, my name is Taylor and I want to shovel this quinoa casserole into my super-easy-recipe-loving self for all the dinners that remain in my life. <– BOLD STATEMENT. But, TRUF.
Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit

Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit
Cauliflower alfredo sauce, although it is not new and hot and trendy anymore, it’s still the kind of creamy, saucy happiness that fills your pasta-loving-tummy with all the cozy-feels of a big ol’ plate of BUTTER-CREAM-NOT-HEALTHY Alfredo sauce but, liiike, it ALL VEGETABLES YO’. If you’re one of those suspicious humans who is rolling their eyes at me as I sing the yummy praises of cauliflower turning into sauce and telling you it tastes like it’s cream-laden counter-part, and straight up thinkin’ “she’s lying,” well, I UNDERSTAND YOU.

I was one of you. I was on the outside of the cauliflower-can-do-all-things secret circle. I mean, I was pretty on board with cauliflower mashed potatoes and you KNOW I love me some cauliflower rice, but sauce?

 Umm. Nope. Not happening to my face ever.
 Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit
BUT temptation in the form of Pinterest happened. Real talk: If you see 32 bazillion cauliflower sauce recipes on your screen at once, something in your brain flips and tells you to MAKE IT RIGHT NOW. EVERYBODY IS DOING RIGHT?

The fear of missing out? This girl. RIGHT HERE. FOMO.

F-I-N-A-L-L-Y stubborn Taylor was all “let’s just do this thang and prove to everyone that they are wrong and I am right about this sauce-y shenanigans”

Peeps. I’m gonna put my big-girl-pants on and admit: I was W-R-O-N-G.

Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit

There’s this odd thing that happens when you put a little bit of roasted garlic (<3 <3 <3) tender, golden brown onion, a dash of salt and pepper and a few healthy Tablespoons of salty stock into a blender….then add cauliflower. It’s odd in the fact that you’re eating pureed vegetables are you’re TOTALLY okay with it. Like, on its own. Maybe it doesn’t even need to be a sauce?

 Don’t listen to the above sentence. In this quinoa bake, it NEEDS to be a sauce. It’s the kind of creamy that juuuuust binds the chewy morsels of quinoa, ooey-gooey melted cheese and all those bursts of juicy artichokes into that perfect casserole consistency that is scoop-able, warm + so so cozy.

Preeee much we need to just pinky promise that we will all make this for dinner tonight mmkay?

I meannnnn, there is just so much goodness that your face needs to be IN ON.

Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit

I also shared the Spinach Artichoke Quinoa Casserole Recipe over on Food Fanatic, so be sure to check it out there!


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Spinach, Artichoke and Cauliflower Alfredo Quinoa Casserole - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit

WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS PER SERVING: SMARTPOINTS: 5 POINTS+: 3 OLD POINTS: 1

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Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Casserole with Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce - This creamy, gluten free quinoa casserole tastes like spinach and artichoke dip in a healthy, weeknight dinner form! No one will it has hidden veggies and is only 180 calories and 5 SmartPoints! | Foodfaithfitness.com | @FoodFaithFit

Quinoa casseroles from around the web:

Butternut Squash Broccoli Quinoa Casserole – Life Made Sweeter

Chicken Enchilada Quinoa Casserole – Garnish With Lemon

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  10. I’ve never cooked my own quinoa before. (Shocker, I know, where have I been?!) what is your favorite, or a suggestion of what kind to buy? I am totally getting some to make this recipe!! It looks so delicious!!

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    • I actually always buy mine in bulk! But, Bob’s Red Mill is really good! For this recipe I would get just normal “quinoa” It should be a light yellowish color. There are different colored quinoas (red and black) and they have a more “Earthy” taste that I’m not a huge fan off! I hope that helps!! Quinoa is the best because it cooks in 15 mins…not like rice which takes half your life 🙂 Let me know what you try!

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  12. The FOMO deal was actually with me and spaghetti squash until I tried it out last night–it was amazing! Now it’s BAKING with sweet potatoes and making beet hummus! I did try cauliflower “rice” in oatmeal, and it was so so good! I have to try it savory now.

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  14. I have seen so many recipes lately that use artichokes; yet for some reason I am very hesitant to try it. However, this recipe looks so delicious!!

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  17. Inspired to try this tonight! Curious if you’ve ever roasted the garlic and cooked the quinoa at the same time as a timesaver what temp would be best?

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  18. I just made this casserole for the second time– so yummy! My only complaint the first time I made it was that it got eaten too quickly. This time I doubled it and made it in my 2.5 quart casserole dish.

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