{"id":2559,"date":"2020-02-03T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehappylentils.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:57:18","slug":"vegan-adzuki-bean-meatballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappylentils.com\/en\/vegan-adzuki-bean-meatballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Adzuki Bean Meatballs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is this thing about food, and I hope you nod your head (or at least you will soon) agreeing with me. I mean, food is a necessity, there’s no doubt about it. We must eat, even several times a day. It’s our fuel, like oxygen and sleep. But food is much more than that, food is also joy, or sadness, longing for someone or something, comfort. There is food that can place us in seconds in a different time, different place, food that can remind us of people we had in our lives or even remind us of ourselves at a different point in life.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Like potluck meatballs (and let’s agree meatballs don’t really have to include meat it it…). Because although in definition meatballs are food, it’s much more than that. When I see meatballs, it automatically throws me back to my parents’ house, and in my mind I see this beautiful pot with “red meatballs” (that’s how we used to call it), standing on the stove, packed with flavors and love. And me as a little girl looking at this, imagining the plate my mom would serve me soon. Today, as a parent myself, I also know how satisfied my mom must have been, seeing me eating the meatballs she made with so much love.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And as for the meatballs… a ball full of ingredients. A golden opportunity to put all the food groups into one ball, including ones that would not be accepted otherwise. A good meatball has in it proteins, carbs and vegetables (you must have vegetable in a good meatball!), and everything is squeezed into this delicious ball cooked in sauce, which is of course an integral part of the dish itself. How many vegetables my mom fed me through those patties\u2026 so many vegetables I feed my kids through the patties I make for them this days\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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I’m sure everyone has his or her private memories of this kind, which is exactly what I mean. Because there is this thing about food, most of the times it’s simply something to nourish the body with, but ones in a while it also nourishes the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Today on the blog – vegan meatballs! that are similar to the meatballs I ate as a child only in sight. Those are not my mother’s meatballs, those are my meatballs, full of plant ingredients that reflect who I am today, and still have in it from the child I used to be. The base of the patties is the adzuki bean, which is a delicious and digestible bean, bursting with things that do well for the body and with a shorter cooking time than the usual white beans, making it more useful in everyday life. The patties are completely vegan, and remain solid and wonderful thanks to prior baking them in the oven and short cooking in the sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Vegan Adzuki Bean Meatballs<\/h2>\n
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Prep Time <\/span>25 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Cook Time <\/span>1 hour<\/span><\/span> hr<\/span> 5 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Soaking the beans <\/span>8 hours<\/span><\/span> hrs<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Total Time <\/span>1 hour<\/span><\/span> hr<\/span> 30 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n
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Servings: <\/span>24<\/span> patties<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n
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