🧂 460mg sodium — comfortably under our 500mg cap
Black Bean Meatballs in Yellow Pepper Cream
Baked black bean-walnut meatballs over a roasted yellow pepper cashew cream with garlicky quinoa.
💪 Where's the protein? Right here — 24g
- Black beans (12g)
- Quinoa (6g)
- Walnuts (4g)
- Cashews (2g)
🍃 Sugar-Free Option
No added sweeteners in this recipe — it's sugar-free as written. Any sugars in the nutrition panel come from whole vegetables, grains, and fruit only.
Ingredients (all organic)
- ✓Black beans, 1.5 cups
- ✓Walnuts, 1/4 cup, toasted
- ✓Rolled oats, 1/3 cup
- ✓Ground flaxseed, 1 tbsp
- ✓Cumin + smoked paprika + oregano
- ✓Yellow bell peppers, 2
- ✓Cashews, 1/4 cup, soaked
- ✓Garlic, 3 cloves
- ✓Quinoa, 3/4 cup cooked
- ✓Parsley + lemon
Dotted ⓘ ingredients have photos and store locations in the field guide.
How to Prep
- 1Whisk flax with 3 tbsp water; rest 5 minutes.
- 2Pulse beans, walnuts, oats, spices, and the flax gel into a dough that holds; roll 10 meatballs.
- 3Bake at 400°F for 22 minutes, turning once, until crusted.
- 4Roast the yellow peppers until blackened; peel and blend with cashews, garlic, and a splash of water into a golden cream.
- 5Pool the pepper cream, land the meatballs, serve with lemony quinoa and parsley.
🔪 Starting from raw? The basics (3)
Beans: canned or from dry
Canned is fine everywhere — drain and rinse; one 15-oz can is about 1½ cups. From dry: soak overnight and simmer 60–90 minutes until fully tender.
Soaking cashews
Cover with boiling water for 15 minutes (or cold water for 2+ hours) and drain — that's all 'soaked' means. It's what makes them blend into silky cream.
Cooking quinoa
Rinse first (it rinses off the bitter coating). 1 cup dry + 1¾ cups water: boil, cover, simmer low 15 minutes, rest 5, fluff. Makes about 3 cups.
📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland
Every ingredient above is stocked organic at these local spots:
- Whole Foods Market — Lakeview
- Fresh Thyme Market — Bucktown
- Pete's Fresh Market — Bridgeport
- Mariano's — Throughout Chicagoland
- Dill Pickle Food Co-op — Logan Square
- Sugar Beet Food Co-op — Oak Park
More metro areas coming as Rootful grows. Or get it delivered — coming soon →
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