Nov 252011
 Mexican edition ( mixed beans, chili peppers, green peppers, onion, zucchini, tomato paste, chili powder) with guacamole and tomatoes |
 Pizza edition, (cannelloni beans, zucchini, onion, tomato paste, oregano, garlic) topped with a portabella mushroom and tomato relish in baked pita rounds |
 Oriental edition (black beans, 5 spice powder, ginger, shitake mushrooms, zucchini, shallot, sesame seeds) served with a slaw |
 Thai green curry chickpea edition (chickpeas, lemongrass, galangal, shallot, zucchini, chili pepper, dried lime leaf, lime juice, green curry powder, coriander stalks) garnished with coriander leaves and served with mango cucumber salsa |
Recently I’ve designated one night a week as bean burger night. I always follow the same template but vary the type of beans, vegetables and flavorings for endless combinations. So far I’ve come up with the above combinations. I get around 4 burgers roughly 120g each from the quantities below and serve with a huge green salad.
Yum Burger
Mix & Match Ingredients
400g can beans – drained or 240g cooked dried beans
40g oats ground into flour or cooked quinoa
200g veg/fruit- onions, zucchini, carrots, apples, mushrooms or whatever you have around
2 tbsp nuts and seeds – or nut/seed butter/ tahini
1 tbsp flax or chia seeds – ground
1 tbsp liquid only if needed e.g veg broth/tomato paste-omit if using nut butters
herbs and spices and flavorings
Blitz in a food processor, adding liquid as needed. Texture should not be too runny.
Form into burgers on non stick pan lined with unbleached baking paper/silicon mat.
Refrigerate to firm up at least a couple of hours or longer if it’s more convenient.
Bake (depends on your oven, mine takes about 20 mins each side at lowish temp). If they loose shape when you flip them over just squish em back into a burger shape and use less liquid next time.
Form into burgers on non stick pan lined with unbleached baking paper/silicon mat.
Refrigerate to firm up at least a couple of hours or longer if it’s more convenient.
Bake (depends on your oven, mine takes about 20 mins each side at lowish temp). If they loose shape when you flip them over just squish em back into a burger shape and use less liquid next time.
Eat
