Vegan Lentil Loaf

This slow veggie filled vegetarian together with vegan lentil loaf is fifty-fifty ameliorate than the classic meatloaf! Be certain to role dark-green or chocolate-brown lentils, non red.

INGREDIENTS

•  2 cups cooked French lentils (I used vacuum packed steamed lentils from the hit section. Be certain your lentils aren't also moisture from cooking.)
•  1/2 xanthous onion, diced
•  2 carrots, diced
•  2 celery stalks, diced
•  1/2 loving cup diced cherry-red bell pepper
•  1 ¼ loving cup diced crimini mushrooms
•  2 cloves garlic, minced
•  2 tablespoons love apple tree paste
•  1 tablespoon bbq sauce
•  2 tablespoons flax meal
•  1 tablespoon dried parsley
•  ¼ teaspoon salt
•  ¼ teaspoon pepper
•  ½ loving cup quick oats
•  ½ loving cup breadcrumbs
•  3 bell peppers, halved together with seeded (optional)
•  1/3 loving cup ketchup
•  pinch chocolate-brown or kokosnoot sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking canvas alongside parchment paper. In a large skillet over medium heat, saute onion, carrots, celery, pepper, together with mushrooms alongside a pinch of tabular array salt together with pepper until softened. Add the garlic together with saute about other infinitesimal longer.
2. In a nutrient processor, pulse together the lentils, cooked vegetables, love apple tree paste, bbq sauce, flax meal, parsley, salt, pepper, oats, together with breadcrumbs. You may accept to operate inwards batches if your nutrient processor is small. Do non puree, simply blend into a chunky dough. You desire about bits of veggies for texture.
3. Form the dough into a ball together with house on the prepared cookie sheet. Form into a "loaf" cast every bit shown inwards the pictures. Alternatively, fill upward bell pepper halves alongside the lentil mixture together with house inwards a baking dish. Bake for 35 minutes. Remove from the oven together with spread the ketchup on top. Sprinkle alongside saccharide to aid caramelize the topping. Bake for about other 10 minutes. Let the lentil loaf cool at to the lowest degree 10 minutes every bit it firms upward during this time.

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