Spaghetti with Vegan Lentil Meat Balls

Name: Spaghetti with Vegan Lentil Meat Balls
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tbsp oil; 2medium onions(One roughly chopped and one finely chopped); 1 carrot roughly chopped; 8-10 cloves garlic finely chopped; 4-5 tomatoes pureed; 1& ½ cup cooked green moong dal; 1/4 cup roasted peanuts; to taste Salt; to taste Freshly crushed black pepper; 1 tsp chilli flakes; 1/4 cup shredded cheese of your choice(optional); 150 grams durum wheat or whole wheat spaghetti pasta

Priyanka Gandhi Mehta @cook_12131531

This is a complete vegan meal that packs nutrition as well. In my curiosity to make pasta more interesting for my family, this time I zeroed upon this recipe of lentil meat balls to be served along with pasta for dinner. My vegan meatballs are delicious, tender & juicy. This is surely an exotic meal, but still I tried keeping the recipe very simple and did not add much complicated ingredients to it

Priyanka Gandhi Mehta @cook_12131531

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Ingredients

1 tbspoil
2medium onions(One roughly chopped and one finely chopped)
1carrot roughly chopped
8-10 clovesgarlic finely chopped
4-5tomatoes pureed
1& ½ cup cooked green moong dal
1/4 cuproasted peanuts
to tasteSalt
to tasteFreshly crushed black pepper
1 tspchilli flakes
1/4 cupshredded cheese of your choice(optional)
150 gramsdurum wheat or whole wheat spaghetti pasta

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Steps

1

In a mixer jar combine together cooked lentils, one roughly chopped onion, 3-4 garlic cloves, carrot, roasted peanuts, salt & pepper and blitz together till combined well
2

Now make small balls from this and cook them with few drops of oil in a Paniyaram pan. Cook evenly by turning in between, you can also bake them in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes till they look golden brown. Prepare and keep them aside.
3

Meanwhile cook the pasta as per package instructions along with some oil and salt and drain and keep aside
4

In a pan heat the remaining oil and add finely chopped onion and cook till it is pink, then add the remaining garlic chopped fine and cook for a minute more.
5

Add tomato puree and cook till all the excess water from tomatoes is absorbed and then add salt, pepper & chilli flakes and mix well. Pasta sauce is ready, now we have to combine all three modules of the dish
6

Mix the cooked pasta and sauce or else just plate the pasta and drizzle sauce over it.
7

Finally top the pasta with prepared lentil balls and add some shredded cheese if using on top to make it look more exotic.