Recipe: Perfect Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian)

Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian). This will add a little more texture and flavor! These lentil meatballs are packed with flavor, easy to whip up, totally vegetarian, vegan, and optionally gluten-free! A couple weeks ago my husband's employer held a meatball cook-off.

Vegetarian, gluten-free recipe thanks to tofu shirataki noodles. Pasta with marinara sauce has been a favorite since childhood, though in adult years I've added loads of veggies and, oddly enough, lentils to the mix. I have never been a traditional meatball eater and probably never will, but this lentil "meatballs" recipe appeals to me as a hearty vegetarian alternative. You can cook Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian) using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian)

1. You need 1 of small onion chopped.
2. You need 5 of garlic pearls chopped finely.
3. It's of Oil for deep frying.
4. It's 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. You need to taste of Salt.
8. It's 2 of tbn Italian seasoning.
9. Prepare 5 of tbn chopped parsley leaves.
10. Prepare 50 gms of grated parmesan cheese.
11. It's 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. It's 100 gms of red pasta sauce of your choice.

Spaghetti with roasted eggplant marinara AND vegan lentil meatballs. It's also my favorite kind of meal too, both comfort food and bursting with delectable flavor. Slow simmered marinara is made with roasted garlic and roasted eggplant with a splash of red wine for good measure. I'd like to find the equivalent of a steakhouse for vegetarian food.

Spaghetti with lentil balls (vegetarian) step by step

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.

Instead of waxing rhapsodic about the restaurant's aging room, servers would talk euphorically of gardens, soil, and the latest rainbow of produce pulled fresh from the earth. The "side dish" category would be completely rethought. Veggie- and legume-based dishes like these easy Lentil Meatballs would move from menu. Repeat with remaining lentil mixture and breadcrumbs. Meanwhile, puree the marinara to a smooth consistency and heat it up in a saucepan.

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