Category: Main Course, Vegetarian Recipes
Cuisine: Middle Eastern, World
Yields:
6 Servings
Difficulty: Medium
Prep Time: 20 Mins
Cook Time:
30 Mins
Total Time:
50 Mins
Meatballs is made with some kind of ground meat like beef, veal, lamb or chicken. Here is a vegan meatball recipe made with ground chickpeas and couscous. It tastes really amazing served over some spaghetti.
Ingredients
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For the Vegan Meatballs:
- For the Spicy Sauce
Instructions
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For Vegan Meatballs
- If using dried chickpeas, wash and soak them in clean water overnight.
- Preheat oven to 400 degree F
- Pour hot water over couscous in a bowl and cover it with a plate for about 10 minutes.
- In a food processor, pulse cooked couscous, soaked chickpeas, some garlic cloves, salt, pepper, red chilli powder, soy sauce, parsley and a small red onion.
- Roll the ground mixture into meatball sized balls and place them on a greased tray in the oven.
- Place the vegan meatballs in the oven and cook for about 30 minutes, flipping them halfway through. Spicy Sauce:
- In a saucepan, add hot sauce, soy sauce, honey, Thai chilli sauce (can use spices of your own choice) and some cornstarch mixed with a little water. Bring the sauce to a simmer.
- Add baked vegan meatballs into the saucepan and toss well until the meatballs are well coated with the spicy sauce. Garnish with some parsley.
- Can serve this spicy vegan meatballs with rice or with some spaghetti and marinara sauce.