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Eggplant Italian Sausage Sausage Filling Ingredients: • 2 cups shredded eggplant • 2 ½ Tablespoons methyl cellulose • 3 Tablespoons mashed beet (or 1 tsp beetroot powder) • 2 Tablespoons nutritional yeast • 1 teaspoon liquid smoke • 3 Tablespoons water • 1 cup extra firm Tofu crumbled into BIG crumbles • 3 Tablespoons Red wine vinegar • Salt • Pepper • 1 tbsp Parsley • 1 tsp Garlic powder • 1 tsp Onion powder • 1 tsp Basil • 1 tsp Paprika • 1 tsp red pepper flakes • ¼ tsp Oregano • ¼ tsp thyme • 3 Tablespoons olive oil (Mark says 2 but it looks like 3) Sausage skin Ingredients: • Package of rice paper sheets • Dish of water • Potato starch for dusting 1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl. It should be somewhat dry as eggplant will release water when cooked. If it doesn’t come together, add slightly more water. 2. One at a time, dip rice paper into dish of water, sprinkle potato starch on surface. 3. Lay out the filling, on the starched side of the rice paper. 4. Turn the rice paper so it covers each end of the sausage, then roll the sausage up. 5. Cover the sausages and wait 30 minutes 6. Cook in oiled pan as you would cook sausage.

dont understand why companys have so much trouble makeing vegan meat alternatives and he makes it like it was here forever

Sage is a good authentic flavor for sausage making. Also, anise seed as an alternative or in combination with the fennel seed.

Looks good! Have you ever heard of oatmeal sausage? Lots of recipes for oatmeal sausage come from WW2 when meat was being rationed for soldiers. I think there's probably lots of potential to improve on 1940's oatmeal recipes!

Awesome recipe. Vegan hugs from Italy 💚

You're looking healthier every video, seriously. You look so vibrant in this video!

As a meat eater, I would definitely approve of this!

I get a lot of eggplant from my CSA. I've tried quite a few recipes using them but none have been good enough to repeat. I'm gonna try ALL of your eggplant recipes next season! Thanks so much!

You should salt the egg plant after putting them in the food processor and squeeze out some of the water and let them dry, this way the sausage would be a bit more firm at the end.

Your culinar science amazes me at each recipe! Come on! Eggplant as saussage, this is awesome!

You’re really the most innovative plant based chef on this whole app. These look so good! And the peppers and onions cooking along with the sausages probably take the flavor to a whole new level. Gonna try this! Lucky wife gets to eat all the bomb food lol! Keep it up man!

I made this tonight for dinner and as a meat eater I have to say this is VERY GOOD. I would highly recommend. I mixed everything up and let it set overnight in the fridge before wrapping and cooking. But honestly this is worth a try!

Oooo now the idea of using this to make vegan bratwurst is spinning around in my head.

I love the use of the rice paper! I would love to see you make lap cheong (sweet chinese sausage). :)

its so awesome how quickly and how much this channel has grown! i'm not vegan but i love making these dishes!

Good LAWD!!! Can't wait to try it!!!

I love these videos and I'm not even vegan. I love your wife's opinions, she really describes everything and I love how honest you guys are.

Thanks for posting this video. I have to try this recipe.

I am always just so impressed how you create delicious looking, healthy, meat alternatives. You provide inspiration to me and any open minded individual who wants to try vegan cuisine. Your enthusiasm is laudable!

Sauce stache doing the lord's work!!! Love this recipe

Leftover eggplant like that is awesome in spaghetti sauce! Especially the slow simmered kind. Okay, the rice paper "casings" are going on my list of things I must do! I really miss the snap you get when biting into a sausage, and vegan sausage in general just doesn't have that. Thanks! 😁

This looks like a good idea for all the leftover eggplant I end up with. Looks good!

The ASMR moment when you massaged the mixture with your eyes closed was very funny. The sausages looked really nice. And good luck with the Italian!

It’s so cool seeing your channel grow! Can’t wait to see you reach 1million subscribers.

As always, love the video! One thing I wanted to mention, those rice paper wrappers you use also come in square vs. round. Just wanted to point that out in case you weren't aware. I find them super useful for a lot of things, and bought them initially for the rice paper bacon.

I have to admit... I love the background music! And it is a really good recipe, gotta try it soon

I worked at a job that had this deli that had this Italian grandma bring in her specialty eggplant parmigiana every wednesday. 2 trays and it was sold out instantly every week. Wednesday at noon sharp if you were not there at this time you were screwed. I remember when wednesday would roll around and of all days my boss would say no just finish what your working on and you can go! 12:15 i would get there and sold out!

I love the difference in plate maintenance

Going to try and make this for my vegan wife. I will be peeling the eggplant first to eliminate some bitterness. Looks amazing dude. Thanks for sharing!

Hmmm. Look great!👍 Thanks, Stashe!

I feel like leaving out some of the oil etc I could make a healthy vegan sausage without too much issue using this method, thank you! Enjoy meat substitutes but the ones being sold at the shops aren’t always exactly great health-wise!

This looks so GOOD!!

I'm Italian and love this recipe 😋

Very impressive and creative. Using rice paper for skin is genius, and shredding the eggplant makes it so much more accessible than chunks or slices. Thanks for all the effort and enthusiasm you share.

Love it , and will try it, I tried the fried rice wrapper and it was a hit with my 10 year old grandson we dusted it with saracha boy was it good, thanks for all of your vegan contributions, I also bought your Vegan meat book. Keep the great work up, and thanks to your wife she is so honest with her tasting, love you both.

these seem to be fairly healthy too. I mean if you want it healthier maybe go low on oil and andd a nut powder/puree for creaminess. yumyyy

I lost it at "massage the eggplant to release moisture" 💀

Those came out awesome! I’m definitely going to make this! Are you planning on trying other meat substitutes to see what makes the best Italian unsausage?

I'm going to make these using the Lem hotdog casings and stuff using my sausage stuffer.

Salt the eggplant before the grind. Releasing moisture and bitterness.

Great recipe and great use for aubergine! I think I would have pre-steamed the sausages (as they had WG), left overnight, then rolled in the rice paper sheets, then cooked. I personally find that if you use wheat gluten it's better pre-cooked and left to mature, but I have also seen other recipes where no pre-cooking and it's turned out OK. This would also firm up the sausage overall? Many thanks again, great recipes!

I'm happy that you like Italian :D. Great recipe, thanks for sharing!

I really hate eggplant, but if it can be made into delicious food like this, then maybe I'll give it a chance. :)

This def looks good. My brother in law once called eggplant “the only vegetable that’s actually a meat.” I agree, I think its even more satisfying to carnivores than mushrooms(everyonesgo to.) My fiancée and I eat meat, but sparingly and we really enjoy good vegetarian recipes. The problem with all the store bought fake sausages is they’re never juicy, or fatty at all, and it completely ruins the illusion of a real sausage with peppers and onions outside a ball game. Def gonna give this one a try. We were on retreat recently at our Buddhist monastery and the monks and nuns had some ingredient in a dish that we honestly thought was pork. I don’t eat pork because of digestive issues I’ve always had with it, but I could have sworn it was pork. It was in a stewed dish with veggies and pineapples and it had fatty layers and pull apart qualities. If you have ANY idea what it might have been please let us know your ideas. It was very much accurate pork, but because it was made my the monastery, I know it wasn’t. igured you might have a good idea if anyone did. It was a far cry from the usual tofu or seitan chunks. Thanks.

After seeing all your wonderful eggplant recipes I would love your to come up with an eggplant meatloaf recipe. PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

1:30 "Although the FDA has approved methylcellulose for consumption, it's best to have it in moderation, or even not at all. Your body isn't used to highly processed foods and compounds, so a high intake can easily lead to unwanted inflammation as your body tries to fight off the unrecognized nutrients."

The cheese slice yeeted himself out of there. But, when the peppers followed, I died! 😭😂🤣😆🤣😂

Add some chopped walnuts.. it'll absorb all the flavors and give that hearty chewy meat bite.. great recipe idea guys.. head spinning with ways to use this...

I really need to get my mind out of the gutter with these sausage videos

Looks great, can't wait to try this!!!

Field of roast has the best eggplant manufactured Italian sausage ever

Brilliant!

2:35 ASMR moment

Been hunting for a decent Italian vegan sausage! Looking forward to trying this :)

Italian spring rolls. Perfect match

great video. sadly I don't have most of these ingredients they expensive tho!! you're great man

I feel like I have to be a scientist to make your recipes!! LOL

"I'm not looking for small sausages..." - Sauce Stache

This looks amazing. I need to make a gluten-free version. What can I use instead of the wheat gluten?

I always hated the taste of Italian sausage but I'd try this. :)

Please let Purple Durple Spicy Curple be the next vid 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻😬

Just bought your book looking forward to reading it soon

Eggplant never had it so good. It looks so delicious. Como sti? Grazie the z is pronounced like the z in pizza as a T. Oh congrats on the recent nuptials too!

I'm lazy but I'm going to try this one

Looks so amazing!! Side note: is Monica that short or are you much taller than we think, Mark?

This actually looks good and very much great idea, just going recommend maybe a mix of mushroom of some kind for “meaty” and possibly smoke them too. I been working with real meats so why not the same

You are awesome. Thank you for all the great recipes.

They look so good... I love eggplants.👍

Lovely 👌🏻 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a wonderful day everyone 🌻

I made this, but cooked the filling before I added it to the rice paper, it was sooo good and the middle wasn’t soft.. thanks for an Awesome recipe

I'm not really into Italian sausage but I think this tweaked just a bit would make amazing meatloaf. Thanks a bunch, super excited to try it.

Looks really great. Would be so helpful to start doing more closeups cutting into the product so we can more readily see the actual firmness and texture. I belive you used to do this more often. It was claimed to have a good sausage bite but visually it looked too soft so a closeup texture analysis would have helped.

I love these videos, it feels like a modern-day alchemy almost. I feel like the taste test section would have a bit more credibility if you enlisted the help of a skeptical meat-eater

Is there anything that could replace methyl cellulose?

I’m so happy I found your channel yesterday. I’ve been seeing so many amazing recipes from t yours. ❤ Thank you.

I love your channel! It’s inspiring me to make more vegan foods again!! But I was wondering if there are any substitutes to methyl cellulose that are more readily available at your everyday grocery store? I know you use it a ton in your cooking, but I can’t bring myself to buy it because I don’t think I’ll end up using it a ton!

You stay in the lab! I'm here for it. Thanks

10:05 "it doesn't have that meaty firmness to it" 10:38 "like i was saying, it's got that firmness"

This looks so good I have to veer from food videos now because that made me so hungry!

Bro, add some TVP to give it a meatier texture. Thank you for your great ideas! Le tue salsicce sono deliziose. Grazie Monica per la tua onesta'!

eggplant is the one vegetable i have never been able to enjoy in any preparation, this looks worth trying, although i don't have methyl cellulose.

These are looking so good!

Ok!!! I’m making this for Vlogmas!! Looks so good! Thank you for everything you do!!

GENIUS! THANKS FOR YOUR PERSISTANCE, CURIOSITY ETC.

i wish you had a restaurant, i would visit it literally every day

This recipe fascinated me - texture was good. (Although I grated the eggplant and should have thrown out the skin) but flavor didn’t cut it for me. I think eggplant is tasty after sauté with garlic - so I think I might try that next time. Also found rice paper difficult to pan fry. Perhaps eggplant might make a nice egg roll if I used that wrapper instead

As a vegan( 20 Years -&-+. Thank you for your wonderful eggplant recipe ♥️♥️♥️

“Sausage is bigger than the bun” as it should be.

Do you think glutenous rice flour would be a good substitute for wheat gluten in some of your recipes?

Any replacement for methylcellulose? Can't seem to find it in any nearby stores, and googling seems to find glue making mixtures in home improvement stores only.. Would any other binding/thickening agents work?

All I can say is WOW they look delicious! I'm mke these.

1st video in the 2 years I have been watching that you made something I would WANT to eat.

This looks great! I absolutely love eggplant so I am definitely trying this.

Wow this looks awesome!

"Mouth feel" Take a drink! hahaha Excellent video

Trying this out tonight, had some surprise eggplant land on my doorstep I need to use. Scrolled through all the comments and planning to make some tweeks to up the firmness and tone down any strong/bitter eggplant flavor. Excited.

Aaaahhhhhhh. So glad I found you today. I have been trying to find more recipes and different ideas for eggplants. I am not keen on this vegetable but really want to explore other ways of using it to hopefully enjoy.

The Meat Magician!

That rice paper idea is genius !