Vegetarian Keftedes Recipes
My family includes Greek vegetarians and they just love when I make vegetarian Keftedes and Tzatziki. They are great as an appetizer, or as a main dish when served with veggies and a salad. I also love the leftovers in cold sandwiches on pita bread with tzatziki or hummus.
Vegetarian Keftedes Photo, © Julianne Gentile
Vegetarian Keftedes Recipe
- Serves: 8-10 people
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
This vegetarian recipe includes eggs. Vegans can replace the vegetarian faux burger with a vegan faux burger and use Ener-G or other egg replacer instead of the eggs.
Ingredients
- 20 oz Vegetarian burger or other faux beef crumbles
- 1 small onion
- 3-4 cloves of garlic
- 1/3 cup oregano or Italian seasoning blend
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups bread crumbs
- 1/3 cup flour
- 1/2 cup oill for frying
- salt and pepper to taste
- or Cavender's Greek Seasoning to taste
- Optional: 1 Tablespoon fresh mint
Instructions
Mix faux meat, eggs, and seasonings together in a large bowl
grate onions directly into the mixture to get the onion juice in the mix
add chopped garlic to the mix
add breadcrumbs - I prefer to make my own by throwing crusty bread into a food processor
Add mint if you prefer
Season to taste with salt and pepper or Cavender's Greek Seasoning
Heat oil in a pan for frying
Pour flour on a plate
Shape mixture into balls and roll in flour
Fry balls in the hot oil
Once well browned all over, remove from oil and allow to drain
Serve with tzatziki
Vegetarian Burger
Worthington Vegetarian Burger, Low Fat, 20-Ounce Cans (Pack of 12)
This is super tasty right out of the can! One can of Worthington Burger is perfect for use with the keftedes recipe above. You can use your favorite faux meat, but Burger is handy to have on hand and Amazon sells it by the case, so it's always available for making tacos, spaghetti, unmeatloaf, etc.
Vegetarian Keftedes...
Do they sound Tasty or Horrible?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYum, I love the idea of vegetarian keftedes!
resabi says:
Yummy. One side of my family is Greek and we make something similar with spinach and something else with meat and leeks that probably would work with your veggie burger "meat" also. Maybe I'll put up a recipe...
Posted January 15, 2011
I'm sorry, but this just sounds horrible!
Tzatziki Recipe
- Serves: 4-6
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
Tzatziki is super tasty and a perfect dipping sauce for keftedes. It's also delicious as a thick salad dressing, or a dip for chips, crudites, or pita.
Vegan option: simply replace the Greek Yogurt with your favorite plain Soy Yogurt, and strain through a cheescloth or coffee filter for at least 30 minutes before using.
Ingredients
- 1 English cucumber
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 Tablespoon fresh dill
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Peel English cucumber
Slice cucumber the long way
Use a spoon to scrape out the seeds
Chop the cucumber and place in a fine strainer or coffee filter
Add salt to cucumber and let drain for about 30 minutes
While draining, add chopped garlic to the yogurt
Add dill, lemon juice to the yogurt mixture
Blend yogurt mixture and cucumber in a food processor
Salt and Pepper to taste
Cucumber Dill Dip
Cucumber Dill Dip, Stove, 4.5 oz
If you don't have the time or patience to prepare homemade tzatziki, this Cucumber Dill Dip from Amaerican Spice is delish! Just mix this with Greek yogurt and you have an instant dill dip, perfect to serve with pitas, gyros, keftedes, falafels, etc.
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Keftedes Chatter
Have you ever tried Vegetarian Keftedes?
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JaguarJulie
Feb 16, 2012 @ 1:33 pm | delete
- Gosh, we were fortunate enough to actually have these meatballs when we traveled to Athens and Crete, Greece. Love the taste of Greek food.
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Tipi
Feb 15, 2012 @ 12:50 pm | delete
- Your vegetarian Keftedes recipe sounds absolutely inviting, I'm not vegetarian and they even read delicious!
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hlkljgk Jan 6, 2012 @ 3:55 pm | delete
- i can always count on you for a good vegetarian-izing of classic recipes. :)
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moonlitta
Feb 15, 2011 @ 3:03 am | delete
- My favorite meal from childhood -just we call them "kjufteta"- I live in neighboring Greece Bulgaria. Nothing tastes better! (Well ours were not vegetarian but the recipe is the same excluding the faux meat). And the Tzatziki is named here "Snowwhite" or Snejanka salad.
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euneakme
Feb 6, 2011 @ 3:54 am | delete
- This sounds and looks very tasty. I am willing to try to make some. I am a lover of vegetables and anything vegetarian although I do eat meat.
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