We made a trip to
Vancouver BC in honor of spring break
and this post was inspired by a burger we ate in a little town there. This
isn't really a recipe, more of a technique( But I told myself I can't let it be
5 months until my next post).
These are also known
as clean out your fridge burgers. So
you need some lentils or beans. You will need to cook it. And something for a
binder. Rice, couscous, Quinoa, bread any of it will work. And then you look in
your pantry and you will hopefully find some onion and some garlic. If you look
in your fridge some more maybe you will find a carrot or a bell pepper . Lucky
you. So what you do is first saute up the onion , ginger and garlic
in a little olive oil and then add whatever veggies you find. You want to get
this well cooked and rather dry. So don't salt this yet. Then you mix this up
with your rice/couscous/Quinoa/Bread and
beans/lentils and add salt and pepper to taste. Then pulse it so briefly in
your food processor until it just comes together. At this point you can chill it a little. Then
you form it into burgers. Dredge them in some flour/semolina/bread crumbs and
cook it on your oiled cast iron pan - and
there you have it. I told you it isn't really a recipe. But if you insist on a recipe, this is what I did.
One small onion
2 to 3 cloves garlic ( or more)
5 mushrooms
10 mint leaves
About 1.5 cup of
cooked green mung beans
Another half to
3/4 cup of leftover white rice
Coarse semolina
flour for dredging.
So I sauteed and
pulsed, and made burgers and dredged in the semolina and cooked on my cast iron
pan. I cooked about 4 burgers at a time
oiling the pan with a couple of teaspoons of oil for each batch. It took about
4 minutes per side to get nice and crispy. They stored well in the fridge for 2
days and revived well in the toaster
oven.
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