Chickpea Meatballs
So in the past when I’ve had a hankering for
But I also sometimes crave some meatballs in a tomato based sauce. I’ve already done a meatball recipe before using TVP and it was delicious. Check out the recipe here if interested.
For a change, I decided to test out a Chickpea based meatball recipe and lemme tell ya? This is EQUALLY as tasty meatball recipe as my TVP one…so try either depending what mood you’re in.
Simple Chickpea Meatballs | Vegan and Gluten Free
Chickpea Meatballs in a tomato based sauce accompanied by pasta.
Servings 2 Servings
Ingredients
Chickpea Ball ingredients
- 2 tsp Olive Oil
- 1 Red Onion finely chopped
- 1 clove Minced Garlic
- 1x 400 gm can of Chickpeas (Rinsed and drained)
- 1 Egg Replacer (I use Orgran brand)
- 1/2 cup Breadcrumbs
- 1 Zucchini grated
Tomato Meatball Sauce Ingredients
- 400 gm Can diced Tomatoes
- 1 Tbsp Tomato Paste
- 250 ml Beef Stock (Vegan – I use Massels brand)
- 1 tsp sugar (I used raw but you can use white)
- 1 Tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
- 1 tsp dry Coriander
Instructions
- Heat Conventional oven to 180c (fan forced 160c). Line an oven tray with baking paper.
Preparing the Chickpea Balls
- Heat a pan on the stove at medium heat and add the onion, grated zucchini and garlic. Cook for a couple of minutes, stirring every so often, then reduce the heat to low and cook for a further 5 or so minutes until soft and caramelised. Then take off the heat and allow to cool for a little while.
- Place the rinsed and drained chickpeas along with the coriander into a food processor. Pulse until the chickpeas resemble breadcrumbs.
- Then pour the chickpeas into a mixing bowl and add the cooled off onion and garlic, followed by the breadcrumbs and egg replacer.
- Season with Salt & Pepper and then mix and form into meatballs. Then place them on the prepared oven tray. Bake for 20 minutes.
Preparing the Tomato based sauce
- While the chickpea balls are baking, prepare the sauce. Heat the pan you used earlier for the onions. Add in all of the sauce ingredients and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Whilst the sauce is simmering and chickpeas baking, you can cook some pasta to go with it, or make a salad or mashed potatoes.
- Once the chickpeas have finished baking, serve them up on top of some pasta (or whatever accompaniment you have chosen) and then pour the prepared Tomato based sauce across the top.
