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Vegan Lentil Meatballs
Prep: 15mCook: 15mPosted: 4/21/2026
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- , instructions as
- 1 cup dried green or brown lentils (soaked overnight) \n
- 1 cup finely chopped onion \n
- 2 cloves garlic, minced \n
- 1 cup cooked quinoa \n
- 1/4 cup almond flour \n
- 2 tbsp tomato paste \n
- 1 tsp dried oregano \n
- 1 tsp dried basil \n
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika \n
- Salt and pepper to taste \n
- Olive oil for drizzling \n
- Rinse lentils and cook with 3 cups water until tender (about 20-25 minutes). Drain and let cool. \n
- In a food processor, combine cooked lentils, onion, garlic, quinoa, almond flour, tomato paste, oregano, basil, smoked paprika, salt, and pepper. Pulse until a sticky dough forms. \n
- Using your hands, shape the mixture into bite‑size balls (about 1.5 inches). \n
- Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Place meatballs on a parchment‑lined baking sheet, drizzle lightly with olive oil, and bake for 18-20 minutes until golden. \n
- Serve with a tomato sauce of your choice and a side of steamed vegetables. \n
- 1 cup dried green or brown lentils (soaked overnight) \\n
- 1 cup finely chopped onion \\n
- 2 cloves garlic, minced \\n
- 1 cup cooked quinoa \\n
- 1/4 cup almond flour \\n
- 2 tbsp tomato paste \\n
- 1 tsp dried oregano \\n
- 1 tsp dried basil \\n
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika \\n
- Salt and pepper to taste \\n
- Olive oil for drizzling \\n
- Rinse lentils and cook with 3 cups water until tender (about 20-25 minutes). Drain and let cool. \\n
- In a food processor, combine cooked lentils, onion, garlic, quinoa, almond flour, tomato paste, oregano, basil, smoked paprika, salt, and pepper. Pulse until a sticky dough forms. \\n
- Using your hands, shape the mixture into bite‑size balls (about 1.5 inches). \\n
- Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Place meatballs on a parchment‑lined baking sheet, drizzle lightly with olive oil, and bake for 18-20 minutes until golden. \\n
- Serve with a tomato sauce of your choice and a side of steamed vegetables. \\n
- 1 cup dried green or brown lentils (soaked overnight) \\n
- 1 cup finely chopped onion \\n
- 2 cloves garlic, minced \\n
- 1 cup cooked quinoa \\n
- 1/4 cup almond flour \\n
- 2 tbsp tomato paste \\n
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- , and a health tip. Likely after instructions maybe a paragraph with a health tip or inside p. Must be clean HTML.\n\nWe must ensure that the JSON is valid. The \"content\" string will contain JSON-escaped newlines? Typically we can include newlines inside string. But JSON string must escape double quotes. We'll use single quotes not allowed. We should use double quotes around keys.\n\nWe'll craft the content string with no unnecessary escapes except for inner double quotes. We need to escape double quotes inside the string if any. We'll probably avoid any quotes inside the HTML except perhaps formatting for \"\". We'll not have inner quotes.\n\nLet's produce:\n\ncontent: `
Vegan Lentil Meatballs
\nIngredients
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Instructions
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Health Tip: Lentils are a powerhouse of plant protein and fiber, which support digestion and keep you feeling full longer. Pair them with leafy greens for a nutrient‑dense, balanced meal.
`\n\nWe need to make sure double quotes in JSON are escaped. The string above contains double quotes? It does not. It contains apostrophes but not double quotes. So we can embed it between double quotes without escaping. However we used words like \"fond\". no double quotes.\n\nWait we included tags, and . We didn't use . We could add for emphasis but optional. We can keep.\n\nMake sure that the string does not contain backslashes or line breaks that are not escaped? In JSON, raw newlines in string is allowed? Actually JSON strings cannot contain literal newlines; they'd have to be escaped as \\n. But many JSON formats allow newlines inside strings? Wait official JSON requires that newlines be escaped. Some languages may automatically escape them. To be safe, we can keep the string single line separated by \\n or we can embed newlines by actual newline with continuous string? In JSON, string cannot contain actual newline, it must escape with \\n. So we should escape line breaks. But the instruction didn't mention anything about line breaks in content. It just says Clean HTML. We can produce with line breaks but they must be encoded as \\n. But may be accepted by system? I'd better avoid actual newlines and just provide one big string? But that will be less readable. But it's okay.\n\nWe can produce as one line string by removing line breaks; but then- list items will be in same line? We can keep them broken using \\n.\n\nLet's create content string with \\n escapes. We don't need new line for readability, but we can embed \\n. We'll produce:\n\n\"
Vegan Lentil Meatballs
\\nIngredients
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Instructions
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Health Tip: Lentils are a powerhouse of plant protein and fiber, which support digestion and keep you feeling full longer. Pair them with leafy greens for a nutrient‑dense, balanced meal.
\"\n\nAnd then JSON keys.\n\nThe prep_time: maybe 15 minutes? Because soaking overnight so not included. But counting prep: 15 min. cook_time: 25 min? (lentil cooking 20-25). plus 20 for roast = 25-30. Set 25. Let's choose prep 15, cook 25. Or we can use 20 for cook time? Let's go with prep 15, cook 25.\n\nSo final JSON:\n\n{\n \"content\": \"Vegan Lentil Meatballs
\\nIngredients
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