Vegan meatballs and vegan hamburgers, 10 tasty recipes for everyone

Just four months ago, on May 28, on the occasion of Hamburger Day, the Interprofessional Beef and Veal Association, PROVACUNO, celebrated it by presenting a campaign to find a name for hamburgers without meat, because a hamburger, to be called that, must be a disc of seasoned minced meat or, failing that, a lady born in Hamburg. During the campaign, new names could be proposed and, at the end of the campaign, the most repeated name, verduguesa, was chosen.

So far the thing had stayed there, but this week the issue is back in the news because a political party has called for the creation of a law that prohibits calling vegan preparations of recipes that are traditionally meat with the same name that receive the latter, this would force to have to find new names for things like vegan meatballs, vegan burgers or vegan sausages.

Vegan and vegetarian meatball recipes

While we agree on what to call them, let’s go over a few very easy-to-make recipes, for which no lab ingredients are needed and where, really, the name is the least of it.

Tofu and oatmeal dumplings

Oatmeal is not only for making breakfast smoothies, we can use it to give a texture simulating that of animal ground meat if we flavor it with Vegetable Recipes and spices. The tofu will provide protein, so these tofu and oatmeal meatballs are also very nutritious.

Vegan spinach meatballs

Cooked legumes are also a very popular resource for making these vegan versions of meat dishes. These are recipes that give a lot of play in the family recipe book of families who eat everything, not just people who follow a vegan diet, because preparations like these vegan spinach meatballs are perfect for everyone to eat Vegetable Recipes and legumes at home.

Repápalos, the bread dumplings

In this case we are talking about a traditional recipe that, as it has egg, is vegetarian, not strictly vegan. They are called repápalos and they are delicious.

Vegetarian Zucchini Meatballs

These zucchini meatballs are made with the Thermomix and “fried” in the oven so they are a healthy recipe that the whole family will eat Vegetable Recipes with and enjoy doing so.

Eggplant vegetarian meatballs

In this recipe as in the previous one, the egg can be replaced by a porridge of water and chickpea flour. If you take advantage of the season of this vegetable to try this recipe for eggplant meatballs.

Vegan burger recipes

.When it comes to meat burgers, the dough of a good hamburger is not like that of meatballs, since the former should be only minced and seasoned meat and in the latter it is common to find other ingredients such as breadcrumbs, flour, egg, which are used to increase the locking of the dough and that the meat balls do not lose their shape during cooking.

In the case of vegan hamburgers the doughs are much more similar, since in this case what is usually sought is that the texture is as close as possible to that of minced meat.

Oatmeal vegan burgers

Oatmeal is a very easy ingredient to get, cheap and gives very good results to prepare this type of vegan burgers.

Red bean burger with aioli

.For me the worst thing about a strictly vegan burger is that it cannot have cheese, because commercial vegan cheeses, some of which I have tried, seem to me to be too artificial products. The solution to this little problem is to add some creamy sauce to the burger like the avocado aioli that we have put on this red bean burger.

Gluten-free vegan burgers

These burgers are made with thin textured soybeans and have a homemade vegan sauce reminiscent of cheddar cheese. They’re fried in oil and left with a crispy crust thanks to the chickpea flour, making them reminiscent of a Crispy Chicken burger.

Chickpea burgers

If the little ones in the house wrinkle their noses when they see chickpeas on the plate you can change the strategy by putting the chickpeas in the form of burgers like these. More than one will want to repeat.

Bulgur burger

This is perhaps one of the most different, as it is made with bulgur. Thanks to the avocado it turns out to be a very juicy burger, perfect for those who have a hard time eating Vegetable Recipes when they see them naked on the plate.