Freedom Loaf

A few days ago I wanted to make something delicious but didn’t want to purchase anything extra for it, so, I picked a few veggies (prematurely from the garden) defrosted some beans and voila! “Freedom Loaf”

Mixed up some lentils, blackbeans, and garbanzos

Ground up 2tblsp flaxseed and 3 tblsp sunflower seeds

Chopped up my tiny onion and young cubanelle pepper

Mixed it all up with some extra onion, 1/4c oats and spices of choice

Put it in a loaf pan, bake it at 350 for about 30min

Serve it up with some vegan mashed taters

Ingredients:

15 oz each black beans, garbanzos and lentils drained and rinsed

½ an onion chopped

1 pepper of choice chopped

2tbls flaxseed meal

3 tbls sunflower seeds (ground)

¼ c Italian dressing

Any spices the tickle your fancy

Method:

1.     Grease loaf pan and preheat oven to 350

2.     Mix all the beans in a large bowl and mash with a potato masher (you don’t want mush but enough for it all to stick together)

3.     Add the rest of the ingredients & mix it up with your hands

4.     Form it into a loaf and move it to the pan

5.     Top it with a little extra Italian dressing (or ketchup mixed with vegan Worcestershire )

6.     Bake for about 30 minutes

It came out a little dry but was still tasty. With a little extra bbq sauce you didn’t even notice. (I didn't have a full 1/4c dressing I think that would have helped...and maybe reserve a little liquid from the beans)