One of my favorite foods to enjoy around the holidays is homemade sausage balls. They are easy to make, and they also make a great breakfast or snack. They are also easy to veganize! I made some vegetarian ones (with Gimme Lean sausage and dairy cheese) over Christmas and they were yummy, so I wanted to try them veganized, with Daiya cheddar instead. What better time to do that than the weekend of the Super Bowl -- a time when people consume lots and lots of finger foods, much of it anything but veg*n.
The recipe I started with is just your basic sausage balls recipe -- Bisquick, sausage, milk, and cheese. Substitute some vegan ingredients and you have tasty, much healthier, sausage balls. The only caveat is that they didn't quite brown as they usually do -- I'm thinking adding a tablespoon of canola oil to the mixture will help that, by adding back some of the fat that is missing as compared to the original recipe. So, they may not be the prettiest sausage balls in the world, but they sure do taste good!
Here's the veganized recipe:
2 cups Bisquick original baking mix
1 tube Gimme Lean sausage
1/4 cup soy milk
8 oz Daiya cheddar shreds
(feel free to add the oil if you like)
Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl until well mixed. Form into balls (about the size of pingpong balls) and bake on a nonstick cookie sheet at 450 for 12-14 minutes.
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