Vegan Meatloaf With Chickpeas

Vegan Meatloaf With Chickpeas Recipe

By Earth of Maria

🔪Prep Time: 15 mins

👩‍🍳Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

▢ 1 tbsp olive oil

▢ 1 large onion, diced

▢ 2 cloves garlic, minced

▢ 1/2 cup scallions, chopped

▢ 2 small carrots, diced

▢ 1 tsp cumin

▢ 1 tsp paprika

▢ 1 tsp garlic powder

▢ 5 oz chestnut mushrooms, diced

▢ 1 cup celery, chopped finely

▢ 1/4 cup tomato paste

▢ 2 cans chickpeas, around 3 cups

▢ 1/2 tsp baking soda

▢ 3 tbsp ground flaxseed

▢ 3 tbsp nutritional yeast

▢ 1/2 cup oats

▢ 2 tbsp soy sauce

▢ 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar

▢ 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar

▢ 2 tbsp soy sauce

▢ 1 tbsp maple syrup

▢ 1/4 cup ketchup

▢ 1 tbsp cornstarch

Instructions

1Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over a medium-high heat. Add the onion, garlic, scallions, carrots, cumin, paprika and garlic powder. Cook for 5 minutes, until softened fully.

2Add the mushrooms, celery and tomato paste. Cook for 5 minutes more, stirring frequently, until the mushrooms shrink down fully.

3Drain and rinse canned chickpeas, then add them to a saucepan with water and the baking soda. Simmer them for around 5 minutes, then drain and rinse once more. This will easily remove the skins.

4Lightly mash around 3/4 of the chickpeas using a fork, but make sure to keep some of them whole.

5Preheat the oven to 350 degrees C/180 degrees F and generously grease a standard loaf tin with vegan butter or olive oil.

6Add the cooked vegetables, chickpeas, nutritional yeast, oats, soy sauce and apple cider vinegar to a large mixing bowl. Mix together, and add salt and pepper to taste.

7Transfer the mixture to the loaf tin and press it down firmly. Bake for 30 minutes. When almost done, start preparing the glaze.

8Make the glaze by whisking together apple cider vinegar, soy sauce, maple syrup, ketchup and cornstarch.

9Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Carefully remove the meatloaf from the oven and flip it onto the baking tray. Brush generously with the glaze on all sides, and return to the oven for 5-7 more minutes, until the glaze firms up.

10Allow the loaf to rest for 10-15 minutes before slicing and serving.

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Earth of Maria

Earth of Maria

I’ve never been good at introductions because when they’re needed, I seem to forget every single interesting thing about myself. But I guess we’ll start with the basics. My name is Maria, and I am a twenty year old student from England. I study history at the University of Oxford and live in Brighton, but I was born in Russia and moved to the UK around ten years ago. I’m a vegan foodie (as you can probably tell by this blog), a lover of long walks and somewhere awkwardly between extrovert and introvert. Veganism and healthy eating are a huge part of my life, given that both have helped me overcome an unhealthy relationship with food. Finding balance took a lot of time and patience. But, as with many things in life, hard work proved 110% worth it! Whenever I’m not in the kitchen or working in my room, you’ll often find me at the gym, or at the grocery store looking for inspo for my next recipe.