Bonkers For Balls: Vegetarian Feta Balls Alongside Yogurt Sauce
Monday, 27 August 2012
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I've ever had a soft topographic point for meatballs. When I was a teenager, 1 of my favorite meals were sugariness in addition to sour meatballs amongst pineapples in addition to vegetables served over rice. I idea it sounded rattling gourmet! Then, when I became a vegetarian for 10 years, I made tofu balls similar crazy. But it's been a piece since I've revisited the veggie ball, in addition to then when I spied a recipe for "meat balls" on a friend's weblog using veggie reason circular in addition to feta (one of my favorite salty cheeses), I was intrigued. Plus, it helped that I had most of the ingredients fix to become inwards my fridge.
The master recipe called for an egg to endure mixed into the whole lot. I was out of eggs, in addition to then I improvised using a dollop of dijon (tarragon dijon, to endure precise). It was delicious in addition to gave these balls a dainty flavor kicking too every bit providing a skillful bind. I idea these mightiness endure frail in addition to then I cooked them inwards the oven instead of a frying pan, but they actually held their kind well, in addition to then become ahead in addition to endeavor them inwards a non-stick skillet if yous like.
Toss them amongst pasta in addition to marinara sauce, or consume 'em similar a toddler amongst a yogurt sauce (recipe below) in addition to around cucumber sticks.
Vegetarian Feta Balls
(adapted from moreterriers)
1 packet of veggie reason round
1/4 loving cup breadcrumbs
1/4 loving cup well-crumbled feta
two dark-green onions, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
tabular array salt in addition to pepper
splash of hot sauce
Preheat oven to 400F.
In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients amongst a wooden spoon until good mixed.
Use a teaspoon to pick out grip of a clump of the mixture in addition to curlicue it into a ball using your hands. Place balls on a baking tray covered amongst a silpat sail or simply lightly stone oil your cookie sail instead.
Bake for 10 minutes in addition to gently flip in addition to bake until golden brownish & crispy, around other 10 minutes. Makes most eighteen balls. Serve amongst spiced yogurt sauce.
Spiced Yogurt Sauce
1/2 loving cup manifestly greek yogurt
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon aleppo pepper
1/4 teaspoon sumac
1/4 teaspoon reason cumin
1/4 teaspoon ocean salt
Combine all ingredients in addition to serve inwards a pocket-sized bowl for dipping.
By Jeannette Ordas of Everybody likes Sandwiches