Vegan Eggplant "Meatballs" - Your Local Advertiser

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups breadcrumbs
• ½ Cup extra virgin olive oil (plus 2 more tablespoons)
• 3 tbsp pureed carrot or sweet potato ((or 1 large egg if not vegan))
• ▢ Kosher salt
• 1 ▢ 1 globe eggplant
• ⅔ Cup ▢ ⅔ cup cooked lentils ((I used green lentils))
• 2 medium cloves garlic (minced)
• ¼ Cup roughly chopped basil
• ¼ cups roughly chopped parsley
• ⅓ Cup nutritional yeast ((or chickpea flour))
• ½ tsp teaspoon ground black pepper
• ¼ tsp teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 Cup grapeseed oil (for frying)