During the Lenten season, we all feel that craving for meat, and although we try not to cave in, sometimes, the temptation gets the best of us. Try out these fasting meatballs for lent season! They are so good, you may find yourself making them even after lent!

Ingredients:

3 Large potatoes

4 medium carrots

4 medium zucchini

3 tablespoons of peas

¼ teaspoon Cumin

½ teaspoon of Curry

A batch of chopped fresh mint

½ cup of flour

Semolina

Salt and Pepper

Olive oil

Directions:

In a large pot, first boil the potatoes and carrots in salted water until they become completely soft.

Once they are soft, remove them and drain in a colander.

Using the same water you boiled the potatoes and carrots in, now boil the zucchini and peas. Once boiled, let them drain and leave them to cool off. Then, without removing them, mash the zucchini and peas together with a fork at the bottom of the pot.

Once the potatoes and carrots have cooled off, skin the potatoes, and mash the potatoes and carrots together as well. Then add the mashed potatoes and carrots to the same pot with the mashed zucchini and peas, and mash all together.

Next, add the mint, cumin, and curry. Then, mix in the salt and pepper (the amount is your personal preference.)

After mixing the mint, cumin, curry, salt and pepper- add in the flour and mix until the consistency is thick enough to form and mould.

Then, by slightly wetting your hands, take a little less than a handful of the mixture and mould into a circular ball shape. Do this until you have made balls out of the entire mixture.

Then, using a frying pan, pour the olive oil into the pan until so that the meat balls can be about 1/4^th saturated.

Take a bowl and fill it with semolina. Then, once the oil in the pan has been heated, take each ball and roll it in the Semolina. Once a ball is fully covered in semolina, place the ball in the heated pan and turn occasionally to fry the ball evenly on each side until the entire ball is crispy and golden. Do this with all the balls, and you are done! You have made your delicious, meatless meatballs!

Try serving them with spaghetti and red sauce and have you own, fasting version of “spaghetti and meatballs”!