We bring a different proposal for healthy eating, these are delicious lentil and carrot meatballs, a nutritious dish full of flavor.

In addition, they are similar to traditional meatballs but without minced meat, but thanks to the lentils they contain a lot of iron, vitamins, etc.

A recipe suitable for vegans, you can only replace the eggs with some other ingredient that binds. For those who are on a diet, they are ideal since they hardly have any calories.

Without delaying any further, let’s go directly to the recipe with the required ingredients and all the preparation:

Ingredients

For the meatballs:

• 1/2 kg. of lentils
• 1 Carrot
• 1 onion

• 2 eggs
• 1 Red bell pepper
• 2 cloves of Garlic (chopped)

• Salt to taste
• Black pepper to taste
• c/n of Olive oil
• c/n breadcrumbs or oats

For the sauce:

• c/n crushed tomato

• 1 onion
• 1 tbsp. of sugar
• 1 pinch of salt

Preparation, step by step

1. To begin, we add enough water to a pot along with the lentils and put it over moderate heat. When they are tender, strain them and leave them in a container.
2. Then using a potato masher or a fork, mash them until puree and set aside.
3. On the other hand, we are going to sauté the vegetables, adding a splash of oil to a frying pan that we heat up. Then we add the onion and bell pepper previously diced, we are also going to chop the garlic clove very finely.

1. Next we grate the carrot and when the onion has become transparent, we add the chopped garlic and the grated carrot, while they cook for a few minutes.
2. Next step, we pour the sautéed vegetables into a bowl where we have the crushed and reserved lentils. Then we mix the ingredients, while we add the eggs and let it rest in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes.
3. When it gets cold, the preparation will make it easier to make the balls. After shaping it, we pass it through the breadcrumbs and repeat the process until we finish all the balls. We reserve.

1. Now we heat a frying pan over moderate heat with a splash of oil and sauté 1 clove of garlic, we also add the onion and crushed tomatoes.
2. We continue adding a little salt and pepper and when it comes to a boil, we add the meatballs. The cooking time can vary, it doesn’t require much because everything is already cooked, the only thing left is for the eggs to be cooked.

We now have these exquisite lentil and carrot meatballs ready to serve, they can be accompanied with vegetable noodles and grated cheese to taste!

Tips and Tricks

When we prepare the meatballs, if we notice that they are a little hard, we can add a small mixture of water with 1 tablespoon of cornstarch, so that it combines with the rest of the ingredients. We do this if we do not use eggs.