Recipe: Yummy Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian)

Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian). Spaghetti and tomato sauce, piled high with hearty and nutritious baked lentil balls. Vegetarian, gluten-free recipe thanks to tofu shirataki noodles. Lentils actually make for a great meat substitute - they mimic the texture of beef crumbles fairly well and add a certain earthy toothsome flair that makes you feel really good about every bite.

Hearty Lentil Spaghetti. "You won't miss any meat in this spaghetti sauce," writes Marie Bender of Cook spaghetti according to package directions; drain. The original recipe I saw called this "Lentil Sauce over Noodles."This is one of the few vegetarian recipes I've continued. Italian Bean Balls And Spaghetti Squash Noodles. You can have Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian) using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian)

1. You need 1 of small onion chopped.
2. Prepare 5 of garlic pearls chopped finely.
3. Prepare of Oil for deep frying.
4. Prepare 2 of tbn oil for sautéing.
5. It's 100 gms of Mixed lentils pre soaked for 4 hours pre use.
6. You need 1 of tbn black pepper powder.
7. It's to taste of Salt.
8. Prepare 2 of tbn Italian seasoning.
9. You need 5 of tbn chopped parsley leaves.
10. It's 50 gms of grated parmesan cheese.
11. Prepare 100 of . Gms bread crumbs.
12. It's 200 gms of or more spaghetti of your choice.
13. It's as needed of Water.
14. You need 100 gms of red pasta sauce of your choice.

Lentil Mushroom Walnut Balls with Cranberry-Pear Sauce. These spaghetti 'meat' balls are one of my absolute favourites. Since I've never been much of a meat eater while growing up, I came to love all kinds of veggie pasta dishes. Personally, since starting a plant-based diet, I've found it difficult to include lentils into my daily meals.

Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian) instructions

1. Heat 1 tbn oil in a wok and sauté chopped onions and garlic till you get the aroma from the garlic and onions are translucent. Switch off the stove and let cool.
2. Strain the lentils soaking in water.
3. In a blender, combine lentils, onion-garlic sautéed, 1 tbn oil, bread crumbs,2 tbn grated parmesan cheese, 2 tbn chopped parsley,Italian seasoning,salt to taste and black pepper powder.
4. Blend till you get a thick paste without using much water.
5. Scoop oil gold ball sized mixture and deep fry them in batches till brown and crisp. Alternatively you can bake them at 180 degrees celcius for 20 minutes or until done.
6. Meanwhile cook/boil the spaghetti and keep ready.
7. To plate, make each serving portions : enough spaghetti and douse it with about 2-3 tbn red pasta sauce and coat them well.
8. Place 2-3 lentil balls on the spaghetti and pour in red pasta sauce on top (quantity of the sauce is as per your liking).
9. Garnish with remaining chopped parsley and grated parmesan cheese.
10. Enjoy while hot! Bon Appetit.

Enjoyed this video or found it informative and inspiring? Please do me a solid and LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and ***SHARE*** with your besties. The lentil meatballs ("meatballs" or lentil balls or whatever you wanna call them) are made with lentils (surprise! j/k), pecans, and sun dried tomatoes. Top some spaghetti with the marinara and meatballs and you're ready for your Lady and the Tramp moment. We eat a lot of red tomato sauces over here.