Easy Vegan Eggplant Meatballs

Convincing an omnivore that a vegan diet is tasty was never easier than with easy vegan eggplant meatballs. Your friends and family wonder how one can possibly go vegan? Your food looks not tempting because it’s missing dead animal bodies and structure and looks that remind of the “original dish”. Well, let’s face it. Sometimes you need a good vegan dish that looks like the original.

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Easy Vegan Eggplant Meatballs

Easy Vegan Eggplant Meatballs to show off your vegan cooking stills to your friends and family. Do they wonder how one can possibly go vegan? Your food looks not tempting because it's missing dead animal bodies and structure and looks that remind of the "original dish". Well, let's face it. Sometimes you need a good vegan dish that looks like the original.

Prep Time1 hr

Cook Time5 mins

Total Time45 mins

Course: Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Servings: 4

Author: Natalie Green

Ingredients

• 2 eggplants
• 2 cup oats fine or quick oats or oatmeal
• 1/2 cup brown rice flour
• 2 psyllium husk fibre
• 6 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp nutritional yeast optional
• 2 tbsp marjoram
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper

Instructions

Roasting the eggplants      

• Wash the eggplants then cut them half vertically. Take the eggplant halves to an oven-safe glass container and turn them upside down (peel is up). Preheat oven to 400 F (200 degrees) and roast the eggplants for 30 minutes. Take them out and let them cool until it is comfortable to touch them with your bare hands. 
  

Turning eggplants into meat (vmeat)  

• Peel the eggplant and puree them with an immersion blender. Take a large dish and add pureed eggplant, oats, rice flour, nutritional yeast, marjoram, flax egg, salt, and pepper and mix them thoroughly with a wooden spoon.  
• Leave in the fridge for 20-30 minutes for the oats and the flour to absorb any excess moisture.  Now you are ready to form the small eggplant balls. Take a tablespoon of the mixture and form the balls with your hands. It should not stick to your hands but has to be a bit soft to the touch. 
• Take a frying pan and heat it on medium heat. Add a bit of coconut oil or olive oil if you don't have a non-stick pan. Fry them for a couple of minutes each side to give them a nice
  brown color.