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Today we're making for you veggie meatballs in a sweet
tomato sauce. Yeah! Sounds incredible man.
So we're Steve, and Dave. We're from the Happy Pear. We're all about health, happiness
and community.
We're here with our mate Tim Shieff! Yeah! What's up Food Tube.
So Tim's a total parkour legend. Total hero.
The recipe that we have for you today is for Food Revolution Day. It's a veggie recipe
and we decided to step it up one step further for our mate Tim.
We're making it dairy free. Full of the finest veggie meat.
Yeah! So this super tasty recipe takes about 45 minutes to make.
Feeds six people, and is great to make
any day of the week. It really is. First things first you want 100 grams of couscous.
Pour boiling water over the top. Set it for five minutes.
We're using wholemeal couscous here.
Fantastic. It's so quick to cook. Literally it takes five minutes to cook, so it's the perfect
fast food for anyone in a rush.
And if you want to keep the recipe gluten free you can use your own
cooked quinoa.
So next step. We're going to chop our onion and garlic. We got three cloves of garlic and
we're using one red onion.
So lets whack them in the food processor.
Just when they're ready. In they go.
So Tim's great at lemon grating and lemon
zesting and carrot chopping.
And then when you're down to your finger tips
you just eat the rest. Oh! Go on!
Now we're going to add 100 grams of raw cashew nuts.
Now that my beautiful couscous is ready
add it into the mix. We're got one teaspoon of cumin
This is just going to add a lovely depth to this veggie balls.
Now we're going to add a bit of bread. It's going to help bind the whole mix and
make these veggie balls stick together. So here we are using some rye sour dough
bread. You could use whatever you have and if you want it gluten-free just use
gluten-free bread.
fantastic ripping going on. See I got some help from my bro. I'm used to feeding ducks.
Okay. Alright.
Now we're going to add a tablespoon of olive oil, and two tablespoons of salt.
half a teaspoon of black pepper, and we're going to squeeze in
our lemon. Nice. Now she's ready to be blended altogether
Here we go.
Very nice. I like it.
What do you reckon?
it's really nice. It's veggie ball time.
Okay, so now we're going to take our mix out and roll it into
20 golf ball-sized veggie meatballs.
Here we go. Are you ready Shieff?
So myself and the Shieff-ster are going to go down to the kitchen and put these into our
pre-heated oven.
We pre-heated to about 180 degrees. We're going to bake them for about 25-30 minutes.
Here we go. Down these nice stairs.
it we've got I
Okay, so now that our delicious veggie meatballs are in the oven,
its tomato sauce time. What have we got Tim? I've got crackers in my mouth.
I was trying not to chew. Will you pass me the knife Danny?
I'm going to show off. Time to show off my knife skills. There you go bro.
One knife. One onion.
Okay, so now we're going to add a couple of tablespoons of olive oil to the pot.
So lets add in our veg here. Turn on a high heat,
and we're going to cook it for 3 to 4 minutes until the garlic starts to go lovely and golden.
The onions start breaking down
and the pepper start releasing it's lovely sweet gooey loveliness.
Now that the onion, garlic and pepper are cooked, we're going to add two tins
of plum tomatoes and one tablespoon of maple syrup.
Okay, so now our tomato sauce is cooked down for 7 minutes. We brought it to boil, and simmered it down.
It tastes fantastic! Super sweet. Time to season it.
Mm, spot on!
With all those different flavours. Beautiful. You can get that sweet pepperyness coming through.
There's a nice kinda maple syrup coming through. Just really nice black pepper
back of the throat at the end. Genius! So we just got our veggie meatballs out of the oven.
It's time to plate them up.
Time to try these veggie meatballs. Here we go.
Caveman style. In we go. I'm going old-school on a spoon
for a bit of dunkage. Mmm!
You get this lovely kind of bite of crunchy sweetness.
It's kind of that lovely juiciness from the tomato. Just yes!
It really tastes like more. So good. It's really really tasty.
Fantastic. And that's it for our delicious veggie meatballs.
We actually just finished the whole tray. They tasted amazing. Really
recommend making them.
Absolutely rockin'. To find out more about
the Shieff Master check out Tim Shieff's channel.
Click right here. Healthy, vegan, free running parkour
all that fantastic stuff. And to find out more about ourselves check out the Happy
Pear channel. We're all about health, happiness and community.
Have in the crack, so do come to check us out. And to get involved in Food
Revolution Day
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