Recipe: Soysage

Lately, Gracie has been intent on take tallies of everyone's favorites - color, day of the week, thing to do at Christmas, food. With this poll-taking going on, I learned that Gracie's favorite food is soysage! My heart lept! This is a super healthy, wholesome recipe and she can't get enough of it.

This recipe was passed on from a community member during our Community Living in our South Bend/Notre Dame days. I have made a few tweaks over the years and have perfected it to our family tastes. The original recipe actually called for soy beans or garbanzo beans, hence the name soysage. But most recently we have been using a mix of all different lentils.

Soysage 

2 1/2 c. cooked lentils

3/4 c. cooked wheat berries
1/2 c. cooking oil
1 Tablespoon honey/maple syrup
1 c. chopped red pepper

1 c. chopped sweet onion

2 large cloves of garlic

Make a puree with the red pepper, onion and garlic.

Pulse remaining items in the food processor until relatively smooth.

1 c. whole wheat flour 

1.5 c. nutritional yeast
1 Tbsp oregano
2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp sage
1 tsp ground mustard
1 tsp black pepper

Mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. 

Combine with the wet lentil mixture. 

You should have a pretty stiff dough when totally combined.

If it is still too wet you can add more nutritional yeast or whole wheat flour. I prefer nutritional yeast because of the B vitamins and added flavor.

I fry them in my cast iron skillet with a high heat cooking spray. 

Note: These freeze tremendously. For this reason, I generally make a quadruple batch so that we have them on hand.