Recipe: Awesome Veggie Meat Balls

These things are so tasty and easy to make. I've made them about 5-7 times so far. Everyone likes them.

I gave up trying to find a tasty recipe that had good texture (don't like mush). This is my invention with trial and error, but probably close to other recipes out there. this will make about 12 small meatballs.

• 1/2 cup of chopped and fried onion, garlic, carrot, pepper, kale
• optional: grind in food processor will make it easier to roll into balls later. leave some bits of veggie.
• 4-5 tb gluten flour
• 2 ts nutritional yeast
• 1 tb olive oil
• 1/3 cup of mashed up beans
• 3 tb water (needed to make the gluten get firm)
• 1 tb ground flax
• 2 ts soy sauce
• 1/4 tsp turmeric
• pepper
• other savory spices (like rosemary, basil, thyme whatever you like)

Fry the veggies (ran out of kale, used spinach instead here).

Process in food processor (or not) and mix everything into a bowl. Just mix it with a fork, it should start turning into a stringy texture that holds together nicely (because of the gluten flour).

Form into meatball shapes with your fingers and fry on medium heat for 3-5 minutes. Get at least 2 side fried.

Bake for 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Done! Goes great with pasta, potatoes or by themselves.

white bread recipe from Sophie's bday

2 & 2/3 cups white flour

1/3 cup gluten flour 

1.25 cups hot tap water

3/4 ts salt

2 tb sugar

2 ts quick rise yeast

2 tb oil

ground flax seed (optional, i added a few tb to mine)

combine in your kitchenaid mixer

• 1 & 2/3 cup white flour
  
• 1/3 cup gluten flour
• the salt and sugar
• the yeast
• mix it up with spoon
• add the hot water
• mix with spoon

start mixer on slowest setting.

mix for a minute so its all mixed, will be pretty sticky.

• add the oil
• add the remaining 1 cup flour slowly
• let mix for 10 minutes on slowest setting (important!)

altitude and flour types can be different. if seems to sticky even after 8 minutes, add a little more flour. the dough should not be sticking to bowl.

after the 10 minutes, take dough out and cut in half if you want small loaves like we had.

flatten each loaf with rolling pin and roll up into long narrow french bread.

cover and let rise 1 hr

bake for 28 minutes at 385 degrees if one big loaf, a bit less if 2 small loaves.

done!