These Vegan Eggplant Meatballs are amazing meatless meatballs, made with roasted eggplant, mushrooms and cooked bulgur. Served with pasta and tomato sauce.
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 35 minutesminutes
Total Time 55 minutesminutes
Servings 3Portions
Author Klaraslife
Ingredients
1onionfinely chopped
180gmushroomsfinely chopped
450geggplantfinely chopped
3tbspolive oil
1tbspWorcester saucevegan
2tbspnutritional yeast
1tbspbalsamic vinegar
1tspof liquid smoke
200gbulgurcooked
2tbspbreadcrumbs
Quick and easy tomato sauce
3tbspolive oil
1garlic clovefinely chopped
1small onionfinely chopped
500mlPassatafrom the bottle or you can use this recipe
Salt
Pepper
fresh basil
optional: chilli flakes
Spaghetti for 2 or 3 persons
Instructions
vegan eggplant meatballs
Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onions.
Add mushrooms and fry until crispy brown.
Mix eggplant cubes, salt, pepper and sauté for 15 minutes until brown.
Alternatively, you can fry the aubergine cubes in the oven with a little oil crispy.
Only by the vigorous frying get the eggplant their spicy taste. And that is exactly what we want.
Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Deglaze with balsamic, Worcester sauce and liquid smoke. Stir and add together with the yeast flakes in the Food Processor and mix shortly.
Put everything in a bowl and mix with the bulgur and breadcrumbs.
Season with salt and pepper.
Let the eggplant balls cool for 10 minutes and then form balls from them. Put on a baking sheet and drizzle with a little olive oil.
Bake the balls for 20 minutes.
Quick and easy tomato sauce
Fry the onions and garlic in oil. Until it smells delicious.
Salt, pepper and passata.
Let simmer for 20 minutes. Who likes to refine the sauce with a few chili flakes. Cook the spaghetti according to the package instructions al dente. Add some pasta water to the tomato sauce, add the pasta and mix. Serve on plates and serve with the aubergine balls and fresh basil.
Greetings from Klaraslife kitchen.
Notes
you can use also smoke salt instead of liquid smoke. But have an eye on it with the amount of salt if you are use it.