Recipe: Vegan Spaghetti & No-Meatballs
On today's show, co-host Jane Velez-Mitchell, who is vegan, brought Anderson a vegan spaghetti and wheatball meal from a NYC restaurant.
If you would like to try a similar vegan dish, popular vegan food blogger and photographer Kathy from Healthy-Happy-Life.com shares her recipe!
Spaghetti & No-Meatballs Recipe
No-Meatballs Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups (1 - 15 ounce can) beans, drained/rinsed in hot water (I used pinto beans)
3/4 cup white onion, diced
1/3 cup parsley, finely chopped
1 cup mushrooms, finely chopped (try soft oyster or shiitake mushrooms)
2 Tbsp red wine
1/2 cup Italian-seasoned Panko breadcrumbs (fine)
2 tsp chopped garlic (roasted or raw)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp fine black pepper
1/2 tsp chili powder (or 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast (or more bread crumbs)
1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, for saute
Also:
spaghetti pasta (any variety)
marinara sauce (bottled or make your own, my marinara recipe)
chopped basil or parsley garnish
vegan Parmesan on top (optional)
Directions:
About Kathy:Kathy Patalsky writes, cooks and photographs daily for her vegan recipe blog Healthy-Happy-Life.com. Her work has been seen in VegNews
Magazine, PCRM, The Kitchn and many more. Kathy has a popular iPhone App called "Smoothies." Kathy founded and curates FindingVegan.com and her first book 365 Vegan Smoothies debuts spring 2013 from Penguin / Avery. Kathy loves sunshine, smoothies, family, food, photography, movies and animals big and small.
Check out Kathy's book here, or visit Halthy-Happy-Life.com. Follow Kathy on Twitter @LunchBoxBunch.
See more of Kathy's favorite vegan recipes!
Vegan Pasta
Secret Ingredient Vanilla Shake
Pineapple Fried Quinoa






















