Vegan Italian Meatball Recipe | Easy Chickpea & Oat Flour Meatless Meatball | Whole Food Plant Based

Today I'm bringing you some tasty, healthy, bean-based meatless meatball alternatives. These Chickpea Oat Flour Meatless Meatballs are full of Italian flavor, have great texture - though admittedly are nothing like the real thing, but we can overlook that when they're healthy and still taste great, right? Plus they do fulfill that meatball craving beautifully! Blog post with printable recipe card: https://plantsnotplastic.com/chickpea.... Enjoy!

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Ingredients:
1 medium onion
4 cloves garlic
4oz cremini mushrooms
1 flax egg (1 tbsp ground flax seed + 3 tbsp water)
1.5 cups white beans, drained and completely rinsed
1-2 tbsp nutritional yeast
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp each basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme and sage (*sub 1 large tsp Italian seasoning)*
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes; optional
2 tbsp soy sauce or tamari
3 tbsp tomato paste or ketchup
1.5 cups oat flour

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Instructions: (1:30)
Taste Test: (4:17)
Nutrition: (5:00)

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Recommended Books:
The Starch Solution, John McDougall
The China Study, T. Colin Campbell
How Not to Die, Michael Greger
How Not to Diet, Michael Greger
Meatonomics, David Robinson Simon
Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease, Caldwell Esselstyn

Research:
The BROAD Study
https://www.nature.com/articles/nutd2...

Type of vegetarian diet, body weight, and prevalence of type 2 diabetes. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Reference
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

A multicenter randomized controlled trial of plant-based nutrition program to reduce body weight and cardiovascular risk in the corporate setting: the GEICO study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of changes in body weight in clinical trials of vegetarian diets.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Vegetarian diets: what do we know of their effects on common chronic diseases?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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