Assyrian-Style Vegan Meat and Rice Balls

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By Joe Yonan

This is Food exertion Joe Yonan’s instrumentality connected the accepted rice-studded meatballs called kufteh that his aunts and grandma made connected his puerility visits to Chicago, a halfway of Assyrian American culture. As a vegetarian, helium uses vegan crushed beef, and helium couldn’t defy creating a speedy but nontraditional lemon-butter condiment retired of the cooking liquid near successful the pan. The cornstarch is utilized if you privation to marque the condiment thicker and silkier, but it’s optional. Note that an Instant Pot mentation (see Variations) tin prevention you hands-on time. Serve with breadstuff and a salad, if you’d like.

Beyond's plant-based crushed beef comes successful 16-ounce bulk packages. Impossible's merchandise comes successful 12-ounce packages, truthful this look would necessitate 2 of those, with 8 ounces near over.

From Food and Dining exertion Joe Yonan, loosely based connected recipes by Kathryn Pauline connected her Cardamom and Tea blog and “Assyrian Mothers’ Cookbook: Our Heritage” (1995) published by the Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation of Chicago.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cupful basmati rice
  • 4 cloves garlic, halved
  • 3 scallions, trimmed and chopped into ample pieces
  • 1 celery stalk, chopped into ample pieces
  • 1 banana capsicum oregon tiny greenish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into ample pieces
  • 1 lb vegan crushed beef, specified arsenic Impossible oregon Beyond Meat
  • 1 tablespoonful dried oregano
  • 1/2 spoon good salt
  • 1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 1 cupful water
  • 1 tablespoonful vegan butter, specified arsenic Miyoko’s
  • 1 tablespoonful caller citrus juice
  • 1 tablespoonful cornstarch (optional)
  • 1/4 cupful chopped caller flat-leaf parsley leaves

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 meatball with 2 tablespoons sauce)

  • Calories

    360

  • Fat

    17 g

  • Saturated Fat

    7 g

  • Carbohydrates

    31 g

  • Sodium

    912 mg

  • Cholesterol

    0 mg

  • Protein

    23 g

  • Fiber

    4 g

  • Sugar

    1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Food and Dining exertion Joe Yonan, loosely based connected recipes by Kathryn Pauline connected her Cardamom and Tea blog and “Assyrian Mothers’ Cookbook: Our Heritage” (1995) published by the Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation of Chicago.

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published September 10, 2023

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Updated March 17, 2026

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