Sumptuous Vegan “Meatballs” w/Tangy Marinara Sauce recipe

You have GOT to try this one! My very favourite high-protein vegan “meatball” recipe. It’s sublime!

468 cals, 36g protein, 56g carbs and 6g fat.

Written recipe below…

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*** Recipe ***

Ingredients:

5 medium mushrooms
1/2 medium onion
300g canned chopped tomatoes
2 sun-dried tomatoes
1 tsp mixed herbs
1 garlic clove
1 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
50g frozen spinach
45g pasta
30g TVP mince (dry weight)
1 tbsp ground flaxseeds
10g chickpea flour (gram flour)
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1 tbsp nutritional yeast
1/4 tsp smoked paprika
Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Pour boiled water over the TVP and let it sit for 10 minutes.
Cover the sun-dried tomatoes in boiled water and set aside for 10 minutes. This will remove some of the salt from them.
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
In a bowl, mix the ground flaxseed, chickpea flour, garlic powder, onion powder, nutritional yeast, smoked paprika, salt, and pepper.
Drain the TVP mince and squeeze out some of the excess water from it (I like the do this with the back of a spoon while it’s in a sieve).
Add it into the bowl and mix.
Form the mixture into 4 balls and place them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. You will need to squeeze the mixture together in your hands and be delicate with it so that it doesn’t fall apart (don’t worry they will be very firm once cooked).
Bake for 15 minutes, flip and then bake for a further 10 minutes.
Steam fry the mushrooms and onion for around 6 minutes (until the onion is translucent).
Drain the sun-dried tomatoes and add to a blender along with the tomatoes, mixed herbs, garlic clove, salt and pepper. Mix until smooth.
Add to the pan of vegetables, along with the basil and spinach, and cook for 10 minutes (or until the sauce reaches your desired constancy).
Cook the pasta according to the pack’s instructions.
Drain and serve with a sprig of basil.

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I’m Paul Kerton, a former Personal Trainer and Vegan Nutritionist, I am now a full-time Social Media Influencer. Not so long ago, in a misguided attempt to try and grow muscle as quickly as possible, I ended up eating more animal products than probably anyone you’ve ever met. Through research, I came to learn the deleterious effects that eating even quite trivial amounts of animal products has on one’s health and through personal experience, I found that far from being a hindrance to sports performance, a well-planned vegan diet is actually optimal! Then with an open heart, I looked at how we treat animals in order for them to end up on our plates and it shook me to the core. I could not believe that for so long I fell for the lies that others tell us, that we tell ourselves, in order that we perpetuate this destructive behavior. Destructive to ourselves, the beautiful, intelligent sentient beings that are here with us and indeed our very planet. To try and put right my part in all of this I was compelled to overcome my fear of being filmed for YouTube and television, appearing on the radio and more recently public speaking. On a spiritual level, I’ve come to realise that my fellow man too is suffering. If I won’t see harm come to a chicken I’ve never met then why would I be unkind to my brother man? If someone is being aggressive or unkind toward me, surely the suffering inflicted on them in the past is simply spilling over? Do I want to add to that, or can I step out of my ego long enough to forgive them and maybe break the cycle of negativity? This former, quick-to-anger “meat-head” bouncer has been on one transformative journey!

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