Vegan Recipe of The Day: Vegan Meatball Subs
- jackalhead
- Oct 19, 2017
- 2 min read
Preparation Time: 55 minutes
Before I went vegan, my favorite meal when I went to Subway was the meatball sandwich. This recipe, contributed by a passionate vegan from the community, does a great job at recreating the same delicious texture and flavor that I so loved from my beloved meatball subs.
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Ingredients:
3/4 cup Italian style bread crumbs
freshly ground black pepper
3/4 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast
1 tablespoon of Italian seasoning
1 x 15 ounce can of pinto beans
1/2 medium onion, diced
3 large cloves of garlic
8 ounces of sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup of chopped walnuts
1 tablespoon of ground flax seed + 3 tablespoons of water
Directions:
1. Start off by preheating your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet, spray it down and place your walnuts and mushrooms on to it. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. When it's done baking, remove the baking sheet from the oven and leave the oven on.
2. Combine your one tablespoon of ground flax seed with your three tablespoons of water in a small bowl and mix it together with a spoon and then set it to the side.
3. Put your garlic and your onion into a food processor and pulse a handful of times until it is all chopped up. Add your beans, nutritional yeast, salt and pepper, Italian seasoning, and cooked mushrooms and walnuts into the food processor as well. Pulse until everything is chopped up and the mixture holds together well. There should be some chunk and texture to it and it should NOT look like a puree.
4. Dump the resulting mixture into a bowl and stir it into the flax mixture and toss in your bread crumbs as well.
5. Roll the mixture into 20 different balls. Each ball should be slightly larger than a golf ball. Place the larger-than golf ball-sized balls of dough onto your baking sheet that you used in Step 1 and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Flip the balls of dough and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
6. To finish preparing your sandwiches, toast your sub buns and season them however you would like. Place three of your meat balls on each of the sub buns and top with as much marinara as you prefer. I find that a fourth cup of marinara seems to be the sweet spot for me. You should have a couple of bean meatballs to spare when you are done.
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