The Best Vegan Lentil Meatball Recipe

bread crumbs

🥗Healthier: whole wheat bread crumbs

💰Cheaper: oats

Whole wheat is more nutritious; oats are often cheaper.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Avocado oil has a higher smoke point; canola is budget-friendly.

Start by making walnut parmesan: drop walnuts, nutritional yeast, mellow miso, and salt into a food processor and blend until it's a fine crumble.

Transfer the walnut parmesan to a Rubbermaid container for later use.

Use the food processor to mince a clove of garlic.

Add leftover lentils, a flax egg, spices, salt, breadcrumbs, and more nutritional yeast to the food processor with the minced garlic.

Blend the mixture until it's slightly mushy and will hold together.

Form the mixture into balls like meatballs.

Place the meatballs on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes at 350°F.

While the meatballs are baking, prepare the pasta by cooking it according to package instructions and drain it.

Drizzle olive oil onto the drained pasta to keep it from sticking.

Heat Beri's tomato basil pasta sauce in a pan and add leftover roasted Brussels sprouts and roasted zucchini to warm them up.

Chop kale into tiny thin pieces for the salad and massage it with pomegranate molasses vinaigrette.

Mix the spaghetti into the sauce and toss it well to ensure it's all coated.

Serve the spaghetti with a few lentil meatballs and top with a generous helping of walnut parmesan.

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