Vegetable balls with pumpkin cream

Would you like to make vegetable balls, but you have no idea where to start?

You have landed in the right place. Now I’ll give you a recipe among my favorites to create beautiful, healthy and delicious vegetable balls. Of course you can share the recipe with whoever you want by sending the link of this page.

Let’s get to the recipe!

Ingredients balls (about 12):

Brown rice, 200 g
Parsley, 1 handful
Leek, 1 handful of mince
Brussels sprouts, 6
Garlic, 3 cloves
Bread crumbs, to taste
Salt, Pepper and Oil Evo, to taste
Garlic and chives powder, to taste

Pumpkin cream ingredients (2 – 3 people):

Pumpkin, 400 g
Potatoes, 2 small
Garlic, 1 clove
White onion, 1 small
Oil and salt, q.b.
Curcuma, q.b.

DIRECTIONS:

Let’s start. In a saucepan cook the brown rice (generally it takes 45 minutes). Meanwhile in a separate pan heat a little oil and let’s add flavor the garlic and leek minced for a few minutes. Then add the chopped parsley and the Brussels sprouts cut into small pieces.

5 minutes before cooking ends, pour the rice into the pan, add salt, pepper and cook together with the sauce for another 5 minutes. (B. This step is important to flavor rice).

Let it cool and then whisk with the immersion blender. Form balls with breadcrumbs (added to taste) and put them in the fridge for about 1 hour.

In another pot, prepare the pumpkin cream. Pour a little oil and let the chopped onion and garlic flavor for a few minutes. Then add potatoes, pumpkin, a sprinkling of turmeric and another 2 tablespoons of oil together with half a cup of water. Cook for about 20 minutes until the mixture is soft enough to be crushed with the immersion blender. (Add other water if the mixture is too dry).

Then, whisk until the whole mixture becomes a homogeneous or almost dough.

Now, heat a non-stick pan with a drizzle of oil and cook the veggy balls (they can also be cooked in a preheated oven for 30 minutes at 180 ° C).