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Polpette di lenticchie

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These are suuuuper simple, to make and also in taste. I often make them when I don't know what to do.

Ingredients (2 people)#

  • Green lentils (cooked): 250 gr (or a can of pre-cooked lentils)
  • Onion: 1 medium size
  • Oat flakes: 30-40 gr
  • Tomato passata: 400 gr
  • Chilli flakes: 1 tsp or less, depends how hot you want it
  • Olive oil and salt to taste
  • "Soffritto" (i.e. onion, carrot and celery): half of each

Method#

  1. Put the oats into a blender and grind until they become like dust. Then set aside
  2. Put 1 onion in a blender and blend
  3. Then add the lentils (drained) to the same blender, a bit of oil and salt, and grind it all together
  4. Move this mixture into a big bowl, and add the oat flakes previously set aside. If it looks too soft and too difficult to shape up in the form of balls, then add a bit more oats
  5. Then prepare little balls (like the size of the circle when the tip of your index finger and thumb touch). You can put a bit of oil around them to create a sort of crust once cooked in the oven
  6. Put them in the oven: 10-15 mins, 160 degrees, static heating rather than fan heating
  7. While they cook, prepare the tomato sauce. Take a non-stick pan, put a couple of tbps of olive oil and the "soffritto" (or just 1 onion)
  8. Leave it there for a couple of minutes, and then add the tomato sauce and a little bit of chilli flakes
  9. Let it cook for the same time as the lentils balls in the oven. And then it's all ready!

Tips#

For serving, I suggest placing the lentils balls in the pan with the sauce, and bring it to the table as it is to make portions from there; or you can place the balls in each plate and pour the sauce on top. It's also worth saying that, for this recipe, you can use 4-5 TBSP of breadcrumb instead of the oat flakes, if you'd like. We were doing that initially, but the price of breadcrumb at the supermarket has become absolutely insane, so we've evolved the recipes and it is just as good with oat flakes as it was with breadcrumb.