Vegetarian Tomato Stew with “Meatballs”
Datin Jennifer cooks a particular dish called “Vegetarian Tomato Stew with Meatballs”. I love it! I like how the taste is sweet and yet sour at the same time. It’s the perfect thing to eat on a rainy day… a delicious healthy stew with “meatballs”!
I thought that I should share this recipe with everyone… So I got my blog team to video Datin Jennifer cooking the stew so that I can share it with all my students and friends on my blog.
Do watch the video and try the recipe out! Look how excited she is on the video to share her fabulous recipe with the whole world hehe…Thank you Datin Jennifer for the delicious wholesome foods you share with us. I appreciate it very much!
Tsem Rinpoche
Video of Datin Jennifer cooking vegetarian stew
Recipe: Vegetarian Tomato Stew with Meatballs
Serves: 6 people
Estimated cooking time: 1.5 hours
Ingredients
- 600g Vegetarian Meatballs
- 5 Large potatoes (diced chunky)
- 2 Medium size sweet potatoes (diced chunky)
- 1 Large zucchini (diced chunky)
- 2 Big leeks (cut chunky – without the leafy parts)
- 6 Sticks of celery (diced medium)
- 5 Cloves of garlic (roughly chopped)
- 3 Tablespoons of vegetable oil
- 1 Canned diced tomatoes
- 2 Canned tomato sauce
- 1 Small can tomato paste
- 4 Vegetable flavoring cubes
- 1 Teaspoon of dried mixed herbs
- 2 Tablespoons of brown sugar
- Corn flour
- Add salt and pepper to taste
Method:
- Heat a large stock pot, add 3 table spoons of vegetable oil. When the oil is hot, stir fry the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots until it is slightly soften.
- Add all the tomato base – tomato puree, paste and diced canned tomatoes, and pour boiling hot water into the pot until it covers all ingredients.
- Add 4 cubes of vegetable stock and 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Reduce the heat of the stove and leave it to boil until the potatoes are tender.
- Prepare a deep frying pan and heat up the oil at a level that is suitable to deep fry.
- Take the mock meatballs and marinate it with salt, pepper and corn flour. Once completely coated, deep fry the meatballs until it turns golden brown in color. Then remove it from the frying pan and drain the oil.
- Once the potatoes are soften, add in the zucchini and let it boil for awhile.
- Then add the deep friend marinated meatballs.
- Continue to boil the stew at low heat until it reaches the consistency that you desire.
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This stew looks so good, healthy and nutritious. I’m sure all ingredients in the pot and the flavorful looks yummy. Thank you for sharing this delicious meal. I hope to have this weekend.
What a wonderfully sumptuous combination! Tomatoes and vegetarian meatball. I would love to have this on a cold night when rushing for work! Lol. Thank you, Rinpoche for this sharing.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post on vegetarian meatballs tomato stew. It adds up to more variety of foods for people on a vegetarian diet. It’s possible to be on a vegetarian diet than for some people who think they cant 🙂
谢谢仁波切的分享。 其实只要我们有心思，精心炮制，很多美食都可以于素食来代替，就像Datin Jennifer 想出了这美味可口的食谱，看了都想流口水。
感恩仁波切的分享 ：）
很多时候，许多人拒绝接受成为完全素食者，给的理由是因为素食没有东西吃，其实只要用心制作，素食餐也能是包罗万象的，跟一道道的肉食美味佳肴其实真的是不分上下的
感恩仁波切
P/s 我们克切拉的克切拉如意轩 ，食物也一样精致美味哦，总要的是素食哦
wow, that looks delicious and i really want to have some right now. maybe i can take the recipe and ask my housekeeper to make me some, or maybe i can have some from Datin Jennifer herself if i am lucky enough. i am actually hungry now.
What a wonderful lady Datin Jennifer is! So fortunate to be able to cook for our Lama.. Cooking her way to Enlightenment? hehe
The recipe looks really easy and yummy! Definitely healthier than eating out. Must start cooking for myself and the family. It is the healthier choice after all.
Thank you for sharing, Rinpoche!
Thanks very much Rinpoche for posting this delicious recipe and many thanks to Datin Jennifer too. I tried and its YUMMMY – even before adding vegetable stock. It’s nutritious and healthy. Have been a vegetarian for 15+ years and haven’t come across this delicious recipe … with love and gratitude.
Thanks Datin for your lovely cooking, please do share more delicious and nutritious recipes for all of us try out 🙂
Thank you Rinpoche and Datin Jennifer for sharing the delicious recipe !! Thank you Datin Jennifer showing us the step to cook vegetarian tomato stew with meatballs,it’s sure looks very very YUMMY…..will try to cook when I got free time.
May Datin Jennifer always happy and healthy !!
WOW!!! What a nice and delicious vegetarian stew with an added bonus of vegetarian meatballs!!!
To be honest I have never never in my life heard of store bought vegetarian meatballs in Malaysia because whoever who has to add a vegetarian product in to their line of meat containing products must have thought that nobody in Malaysia would want to buy vegetarian meatballs when one can so easily get half cows meat half horse meat balls in Ikea.
Although I have not tried this stew made my Datin Jennifer before, just seeing the video and pictures makes my mouth water.
How cool is it now that there are more and more kinds of vegetarian meat like ham, bacon, sausages, beef, and even chicken that now can be enjoyed by a vegetarian because not only is it vegetarian but it also gives you a taste that to me is 5x better than real meat.
When I have the time I would definitively want to try out this recipe for both Rinpoche as well as the Ladrang staff to enjoy.
Datin Jennifer is definitively the number one cook when it comes to making vegetarian food for us which is both healthy and delicious.
Thank you Datin Jennifer for sharing with all of us your wonderful recipe for cooking Vegetarian Tomato Stew with Meatballs!
Love
Jutika
Thank you Rinpoche sharing this delicious recipe . I feel hungry when look at this vegetarian tomato stew with meatballs. Thank you Datin Jennifer show us the step to cook this yummy vegetarian tomato stew.
Yummy! I totally love Datin’s cooking. She has been so kind for many months, without failing, always going over to Haven once a week to cook for Rinpoche and the Ladrang healthy meals.
Datin is such an amazing cook! I enjoy chatting with Datin while we wait for the oven to heat up at the back… She always shows me pictures of her beautiful puppies hehe.
Thank you Datin for the wonderful recipe and your effort and time spent to cook these delicious meals for us =)
The tomato stew sure looks yummy. Datin Jennifer is a very lovely and caring lady. She is always there ready to help and cook for others, she must be a really good cook! Thank You Rinpoche and Datin for having the video and recipe uploaded!
Love, beatrix.
Datin Jennifer is so cute! I made a really huge mistake watching this late at night, its starting to make me huungry. Haha such a wonderful recipe I really want to try to make this and store them in the fridge so I can eat them throughout the week. Thanks for the recipe Datin Jennifer! Can’t wait to try to cook it!
COOL! There is more and more vegetarian food on the menu now, this is just a great news for vegetarians like me. New food to try, I am going to teach my maid to cook this new recipe that I learned from this video. I hope it turns out delicious. Oh My Buddha, I can taste it already! Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this new recipe and I hope that Rinpoche enjoyed HIS vegetarian tomato stew with vegetarian meatballs.
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing this wonderful recipe.
I think mama always good in cooking as they want to give the best food for their children. Datin Jennifer is one the best cook in the world as she cooks with love.
Thanks Datin Jennifer for sharing your love through food. I hope I can learn cooking skill from you one day hehe…coz I realize recently how bad I am in cooking.
Yum Yum!! The stew looks delicious. Datin Jeniffer is definitely a good cook and loves to cook for Rinpoche. She makes it a point to cook for Rinpoche every week. Those times when I was in Haven, I learnt a lot from her whenever she comes.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing the recipe.
Thank you for sharing this recipe and video, Rinpoche and Datin. Was watching this at midnight and it was not a good idea as all I could think of is how yummy this stew would be with crusty baguette and butter. Will definitely try this recipe!
This stew looks extremely delicious… and I am not the kind of person who likes to drink stew hehe. Datin Jennifer is always the best of chefs. I really want to learn all I can from her 😀 I was always searching for a recipe for Vegetarian meatballs. It sure beats the horsemeat that is made by Ikea (No offense, just a little joke 😛 )
This definitely look very tasty, I’m sure it taste good too. Vegetarian food can also be very tasty and there’s a lot of variety, it doesn’t mean only green vege and tofu.
Taste the sweet and sour at the same time, isn’t it the same in life? when we are tasting the sweetness, the sourness will come unexpected, it is almost right to each other, just like drinking the soup. Vice versa, when we are going through sour moment, don’t give up, because you will never know when sweetness is going to come.
This is so yummy and delicious 🙂 I would likes to try cook this vegetarian tomato stew with meatballs. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this nice post and this recipe ingredients.
mothers have the best way of making our day by whopping up the right meals at any time. When i watch Datin Jennifer preparing this yummy meatball stew, it made me hungry to a point i miss my momma’s cooking. hehe
Lovely to have Datin Jennifer come cook for Rinpoche and the Ladrang people. This shows her devotion to her Lama as well
Wow! Datin Jennifer cooks up a storm in the kitchen. Itś so kind of Datin to cook for Rinpoche . I have heard that Datin is a very good cook and comes up with wonderful delicious meals.
Wow, delicious! Tomato sauce is always appetising, I could eat two bowls of rice, hahaha. Thank you Datin Jennifer, I was searching recipe for vegetarian meatballs there other day…Hehe will try it out when I got some free time.