Veggie Balls (IKEA-Style)

These IKEA-style Veggie Balls are made with chickpeas, carrots, broccoli, onion, garlic, red bell pepper, corn, and peas. They are baked in the oven and are easy to make. Packed with nutrients and flavor!

These IKEA-inspired veggie balls are packed with nine different vegetables! They are flavorful, healthy, and easy to make. Although they are not gluten-free per recipe, you can easily make them gluten-free if you use gf breadcrumbs.

These vegetable balls are highly versatile, not only can you use them in lots of dishes (served with mashed potatoes, rice, couscous, in salads, wraps, etc.) you can also mix and match the veggies as you want/need.

The trick to making veggie balls, that hold their shape well is to prepare the veggies accordingly. I’m dividing the veggies into two groups: The To-Cook-Veggies and the No-Cook-Veggies. If you don’t pre-cook the vegetables that will lose water and soften when heated, then they will do that when they are formed in a ball, which results in mushy, deformed, too-soft balls. So we are going to chop up the broccoli, carrots, bell pepper, onions, and garlic and cook them in a pan before mixing them with the other veggies (chickpeas, corn, and peas).

Then you only need to add spices and breadcrumbs, form the balls, bake them and you’re done. Easy!

If you’re looking for ‘meatier vegan meatballs’ check out my TVP meatballs.

How to make Veggie Balls

As always you will find the whole recipe in the box below, but I want to give you an overview of the key ingredients and the process with step-by-step photos first.

The Ingredients & Possible Substitutions

You will need:

• red onion
• yellow onion
• garlic
• carrots
• red bell pepper
• broccoli
• chickpeas
• fresh parsley
• corn
• peas
• spices: salt, caraway, dried thyme, paprika powder

If you don’t have one thing or the other, don’t stress about it. The most important things to make the mixture stick together are chickpeas and breadcrumbs, but everything else is versatile.

The basic steps

How to serve these IKEA-Style Veggie Balls

You can serve them with:

• Vegan Mashed Potatoes with onions and garlic
• Golden Cauliflower Rice
• Simple Onion Couscous
• Oven Baked Potato Slices
• or use them as a wrap filling
• with a vegan yogurt dip

How to store left-over veggie balls

You can keep them in the fridge for 2-3 days and reheat them in the pan or microwave.

Or you can freeze them for months, and reheat them in the oven, pan, or microwave.

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