Easy Meatless Veggie balls
Packed full of carrots, spinach, beans, potatoes and a boatload of aromatic spices, these Easy Meatless Veggie Balls are a hit in our house – hoping they will be one in y’alls too!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 20 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1/4 cup almond meal
- 1 15 oz can chickpeas
- 1/2 red onion finely diced
- 3 cloves garlic diced finely
- 1 tsp freshly grated ginger
- 1 potato boiled and mashed roughly with a fork
- 1/2 cup kale chopped up
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp coriander
- 1 carrot grated
- 1 egg
- 3/4 tsp each salt and pepper
- olive oil
Instructions
- 1
Add the chickpeas to a food processor or blender and pulse till they are broken up - almost smashed in appearance. Then scoop out the smashed chickpeas into a bowl.
- 2
Also to the bowl, add in the grated carrot, red onion, garlic, potato, ginger, kale, turmeric, paprika, coriander, almond meal, egg and salt and pepper and mix with a spoon or just get your hands in there.
- 3
Form into balls and then saute in an oven safe pan/skillet with olive oil until very slightly browned.
- 4
Then place pan in the oven and bake Veggie Meatless Balls for 25 minutes at 375 degrees.
- 5
Enjoy warm on a bed of sauteed tri-color bell peppers and onions along with sriracha, sambal oleak or simply ketchup.