🧑🍳 Medium
⏲️ 40 min
Vegetarian Meatballs with Pesto
Ingredients
- 300g of "Haché végétal & gourmand" vegetarian ground meat
- 1 jar of pesto sauce (about 190 g)
- 70 cl of tomato sauce
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 red onion
- 1 sprig of fresh thyme
- 1 sprig of basil
- olive oil
- salt and pepper
The Step-by-Step Recipe
- Peel the onion and garlic, then chop them in a food processor. Sauté them in a drizzle of oil. Pour in the tomato sauce and sprinkle with thyme leaves. Season with salt and pepper, and let simmer for 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to broil. Mix the plant-based ground meat with 80 g of pesto sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Shape into meatballs and brown them for 5 minutes in a drizzle of oil, stirring occasionally.
- Pour the sauce into a baking dish and add the meatballs. Season with salt and pepper. Bake under the broiler for about 5 minutes. Garnish with basil leaves and serve with the remaining pesto.
