Meatball Sub like SUBWAY But VEGAN & BETTER!

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Hi Everybody! Here's my quick and easy way to make Vegan Meatballs!
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Meatballs 0:13
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[@HonarioBustos]

Props, my dude. Made these tonight and they were stellar. If you ever just so happen to have some marinated eggplant lying around I find that chopping it up and adding it to any plant based meatball mixture really helps give the finished product a nice meaty chew. The additional flavor is pretty rad too. Keep up the good work, my man! I appreciate all the high quality content you produce!

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Oh good tip! Thanks!!

[@suicune2001]

Possible shortcut: Instead of buying a whole loaf of white bread for this, use the scooped out inside of the sandwich bread? Looks so good! And I have most of these ingredients already so it would be easy to try out. I love Gardein's meatballs but something I can make at home could be nice. Especially since my store is very iffy on vegan products.

[@veganpowergrab]

genius.

[@JacKAsterisK]

I'm usually not a huge fan of lentils as meat, but this looks great! Lots of different flavors going on.

[@IDontWantThisStupidHandle]

My husband's favorite grain is the lentil -- and I LOVE "neatball" subs -- I can't wait to make this!

[@mariannewaszak8253]

Hi I just purchased your book. Can't wait to get started making your recipes : )

[@jonathanw7317]

One of my all time favorites. Can't wait to make it.

[@Boomtendo4tw]

Cooking those field roast stadium dog in crisco vegetable shortening worked out really well. I tried scoring them and it was great! Great video once again

[@linzertube]

This sandwich looks goooood! Love a vegan meatball, especially when I can make it myself. Thanks, TheeBurgerDude! Your hard work makes our eyes and tummies happy!

[@SeldomSanguine]

Lovely as always, cant wait to try this.

[@lp7931]

I love that these are lentil based! Can't wait to try them. 😋

[@amandas1464]

🎵RollOut🎶 kinda have to play some Luda when I make these little delights. Thank you!

[@west2319]

violife shreds instead! cant wait to try this out!

[@IAmTheGoblin]

Yes!! It smells a bit like feet to me, but gosh the mozzarella tastes incredible when melted. I avoid the colby jack like the plague though. Truly awful.

[@helen2061]

Love your recipes and your videos! Gonna get the book!

[@andreawalker7138]

I'm not a fan of the Beyond or Impossible meats (maybe I've been vegan too long?), anyway, I think this recipe looks delicious and I can't wait to try it.

[@Reinolds_Recipes]

Delicious! Love watching your channel :) I’m subscribed 😋

[@agneschrismer9946]

Pretty funny with the "not losing the meatball when somebody sneezed" haven't heard that little tune in a long time. Cant wait to try this. I miss a good meatball sandwiches. Thanks dude.

[@VeryTastySoup87]

Awesome video! Definitely looks better than subway

[@Sarah_Apgar]

A meatball sub is the greatest sandwich ever created!

[@cookingin5minutes273]

Thank you my friend for this recipe and delicious sandwich😋👌👏

[@user-ic8vf5ss4h]

If you want you can leave a peeled carrot in their while it simmers in place of the sugar to add sweetness and take away the tin flavour from canned tomatoes!

[@kicknitoldskool]

Congrats on 100K!

[@ViCT0RiA6]

have you ever had the quiznos chicken carbonara bacon sub? it was sooo delicious and the sauce was amazing. if you ever make this, you will be my hero

[@spiritsnscreams]

I gotta try this, my mouth is watering 😄

[@IAmTheGoblin]

Okay. Yeah. This is one of my favourites from you. I was really, really looking forward to seeing this recipe done when you announced it. You absolutely did not disappoint. Very excited to try this one out. I may try it with methylcellulose in lieu of the VWG.... I can't stand the stuff! Does the baking soda really help that much in neutralising some of the gluten flavours?

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Thanks! I couldn’t taste it and I’m sensitive to it!

[@mikiniwilliams5916]

Those look tasty as with all of your recipes.

[@rodneygoodwin3956]

We all have that non-vegen neighbour. Looks amazing, should have known I'd find your version when i searched this..

[@khinkskhoils7647]

Looks delicious!

[@RogueAstro85]

Dude.. Stop.. I'm trying to LOSE weight and your videos are not helping ಠ_ಠ

[@ecualii]

a sub won't hurt

[@Electricrebel001]

Hahahha same

[@kellyvollmer951]

Just leave out any oil you can saute without oil just use water

[@ValseInstrumentalist]

I use the same brand of canned lentils (and all their other canned beans) all the time. And the same brand of canned chickpeas.

[@MyFlipperLikesIce]

This looks so good. I forgot about lentil balls!

[@keleeshamarley7178]

I love your cookbook.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Thank you!

[@somethingor]

Gotta have a wrapping tutorial! Would be perfect for a short

[@TheeBurgerDude]

I’m actually terrible at wrapping lol

[@miltoss678]

Nice

[@veganbeets]

Amazing video!

[@Peacemaker-96]

Yum!!

[@dmtts1350]

The Garlic got tossed like a pro 😅. Nice recipe. Thanks

[@hansvonlobster1218]

I'm pretty sure that the liquid from canned lentils should also do the trick if you have no chickpeas around.

[@Uskotopo]

Looks amazing as always. Would you recommend the same cooking method for the balls if not adding the wheat gluten?

[@TheeBurgerDude]

You can skip the steaming step but brown and bake them the same way. 👍🏼

[@Uskotopo]

​@@TheeBurgerDude Thanks for the tip, chief

[@mannyv2793]

Love the video! Do you know if these can freeze?

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Thanks! I haven’t tried but I don’t see why not!

[@lindseyflorio7015]

You should make a vegan gyro 😁

[@jameshouse2982]

Thoughts on making a vegan gyro?

[@Kdg_playgames]

Do you think this is a good general meatball recipe? I have missed swedish meatballs so badly and I think this could work for it just wanted your thoughts.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Yes you could swap out the Italian seasonings for Swedish meatballs seasonings (allspice, nutmeg etc) and it’ll work.

[@thekingantonio05]

He had fun with the word “balls” lol, I’m not vegan but enjoy the videos.

[@gjones5258]

This looks great. Can the meatballs be made without the oil? I’m SOS free.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

You can try, might need more wet for the binder.

[@arenl.s.6119]

If you want make meat balls from scratch, you must first invent the universe

[@TheeBurgerDude]

What

[@IAmTheGoblin]

@@TheeBurgerDude It is a slightly modified quote from scientist Carl Sagan. Change out the meatballs and replace with apple pie. Not sure if you're into astronomy, but look the guy up! Absolute genius.

[@_PeachSoda]

I hope you start getting more views on the main channel vids. KZbin shorts are super easy to grow with but the growth tends to translate poorly to longform content. I really hope KZbin addresses this in the future because it's quite sad to see creators whos shorts AND longform videos you like get screwed over on the longform front.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

They have addressed it, and my views have increased a lot on my long form too. In fact, recently the views on both have started to be pretty equal.

[@existenceispunishment]

So many ingredients!! But I must make these...

[@SilverSprings1997]

Not as many as it seems.

[@legostopmotions27939]

my mom makes these

[@willparkinson633]

On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball, when somebody sneezed....

[@willd6215]

Never knew that baking soda can help mask the taste of vital wheat gluten. Wonder how that works then 🤔

[@TheeBurgerDude]

I think I saw it on the seitan appreciation group on FB. Seems to work! You can’t do it with any vinegar though.

[@fumper7589]

After I make the meatball ball could I freeze it and how long would it stay good for if Frozen

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Yes, at least a month or so 👍🏼

[@JackJack-fy1cn]

never knew subway didn’t have vegan meatballs in the usa they have it in the uk

[@TheeBurgerDude]

They had them briefly!

[@bleronk6840]

Is the mushroom seasoning important? i don’t like buying ingredients i won’t use for more than one recipe

[@TheeBurgerDude]

I use it a few times a week. It adds a lot of umami and boosts the other flavors. That being said you could just sub with nutritional yeast and that will be good too.

[@TigerGreene]

I just got a bag on Amazon for under $10, which seems like a lot but it's huge - 14oz will last a long time. There are several brands of it. You can find a ton of vegan recipes that call for it on this channel, as well as Sauce Stache and Mary's Test Kitchen. PS: A great trick that you might already know - click on a channel and on the line just above the videos with Home, Videos, Playlists, etc is a little magnifying glass or search option. I don't mean the big search box at the top. You can search for "mushroom seasoning" to list just recipes with that phrase on that channel! I use this all the time to find something specific. Note: this does NOT work on the KZbin mobile app since it lacks the ability to search inside a channel; it only works in the regular browser version.

[@ks20227]

Is there a GF replacement for the vital wheat gluten? Gluten intolerance is not fun.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Maybe just some GF flour? Not sure!

[@heathermcgivney4448]

Question: why steam and then bake the meatballs? Can't you just bake them?

[@TheeBurgerDude]

To thoroughly cook the seitan without drying them out!

[@_DRMR_]

Hmm, tried these tonight and unfortunately it turned into a soggy mess. As the "dough" stayed a wet mess I even added 20+ gr extra wheat gluten. No luck, I couldn't get a big firm meatball out of it and even after ~20 mins waiting the resulting meatballs I turned just sagged as well. Ended up having more of a kind of soft falafels out of these. Then I hoped the step where they steam in the pan would firm them up .. boy was I wrong. The taste was great, but there where no "meat balls" resulting from this unfortunately ..

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Sorry to hear that, if you followed the recipe as written I don't know what to tell you! I made them 3 times with no issue. My apologies!

[@_DRMR_]

@@TheeBurgerDude Well, in the end by squishing them in the pan and afterwards in the oven they did turn out ok-ish. Just not sure what's up with this wheat gluten I got. It just didn't turn into any kind of firm meatballs. It wasn't a total disaster in the end. Of course I don't have the exact same ingredients as you do. Next time maybe I'll try breaking up the lentils to add some more texture, mine stayed quite intact the whole time which probably also didn't help to keep everything together.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Gotcha! Good to know. Glad it wasn’t a total disaster 👍🏼

[@matildeskitchen]

yay love me some juicy balls 😃 as long as they're vegan ofc

[@SunniDae333]

yUUUM

[@darpanchaudhary9830]

Ingredients please

[@TheeBurgerDude]

All recipes are on my site, I also list them in the video. Linked in the description.

[@debbievilla4609]

I JUST ORDERED YOUR BOOK! AFTER I JUST WATCH YOUR VIDEO ON TOFU , LIKE BEEF

[@mauricehunt297]

Oregano and what not 😅

[@frankpoleski5423]

O yeah this is completely plant based

[@drewh79]

I wish I was your neighbour ......

[@edyann]

Almost everything can be veganized except for cottage cheese.

[@Sarah_Apgar]

Miyokos is coming out with Vegan cottage cheese in 2023!

[@edyann]

@@Sarah_Apgar I'll try it. But if it contains coconut then I'll probably won't like it. I hate to be picky but I don't like the flavor of coconut when it comes to vegan cheeses, yogurts, etc. I'm in Mexico and we have a vegan company here that makes vegan cheeses including cottage cheese but it contains coconut. Didn't like it. We'll see... :(

[@allenhook3042]

That's gonna cost 4x more than using meat... I mean id eat it, but man thats a complicated process in comparison and the ingredients cost alot.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

Lentils are way cheaper than meat and you need to add a lot of ingredients for animal meatballs too. Most these ingredients are cheap.

[@IAmTheGoblin]

Literally the most expensive part is the cheeze. What do you mean? A truly great Meatball sub doesn't even need cheeze(though it helps)... The sub roll of choice? Go with what you have access to. My store makes bread daily, and it's fairly cheap. Omit the mushroom seasoning, sub with nooch. Cheaper. Mushroom dust isn't expensive, but pretty niche so I'll let that one be. You should probably have nooch anyway. Bread crumbs? Make your own if you have some old bread lying around. Otherwise, cheap and multiple applications. Plant milk is easy enough. Stupid cheap to make, very cheap to buy. You'd likely already have some in the house anyway. A can of lentils, or dry bagged if you have the time, is cheap as heck. The tomato sauce? Buy a premade jar if you're cool with that. Most people are. Easy enough to doctor up to suit your taste. Meat isn't as cheap as it used to be, man. I gotta look at those prices when I crave a Beyond/Impossible "raw" product, which is rare. Hell yeah Beyond/Impossible is expensive and grossly overpriced (maybe a bit overrated too) but it pales in comparison to the pricepoint of a halfway decent cut of any red meat. If you're gonna do traditional Meatball, you'll need both beef AND pork, or veal if you're going to be extra about it. You won't get that cheaper. Just gonna do beef? Good luck making a decent meatball on a single pound of 70/30 ground, and that's CHEAP I'd like to see where your math adds up. I'll be more than happy to compare your receipt to mine. I don't shop at some hippy dippy store either. I don't have that option. I have a Wal-Mart, Food Lion (basically a shitty Kroger if you're not in an area with Food Lions), or online. My options are limited but I make do. @ me if you're up to the task, man. I'm turning notifications on specifically for you. I mean no ill will or to be combative. I genuinely would love to compare results. Obviously wouldn't be 100% accurate because costs vary on a state level, but I'm curious all the same. Have a good one!

[@petegarnett7731]

Why do you call them meatballs?????

[@Stubbari]

Calls them "vegan meatballs" because that's what those are.

[@TheeBurgerDude]

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[@AdrianJarvis-zk7ld]

wow. that recipe is a mess.