Recipe #110 Lentil Burgers

Ingredients:

• 1 can of green lentils
• 115gr dry chickpeas
• Sea salt
• Black pepper
• 1 onion
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 red chilli (optional)
• 5 tablespoons of plain flour
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 3 tablespoons of olive oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin

Extra flour to dust your hands and either olive oil or sunflower oil to fry the burgers.

For a healthier version see below.

You'll need a food processor for this.

Start by placing the chickpeas in water for about 1-2h. Get a food processor and with the chopping blade chop the onion, the garlic cloves and the chilli. Now add chickpeas (drained) and the lentils (rinse well so they are loose). Blend again for about 1 minute.
Now add the lemon juice, olive oil, flour, cumin, salt and pepper. Blend until this forms a paste (around 2 minutes should be enough).

Flour your hands and with about 2 tablespoons of the burger mix shape this into a burger patty. 

1) For a healthier version of this recipe you can shape the burgers and place them on baking paper on an oven proof tray. You can bake them for around 20-25min on 180oC.

or you can fry them, just like meat burgers.
2) In a frying pan heat some oil and carefully place the burger shaped patty into the pan. With a skimmer carefully turn them so they fry on both sides. Around 4 minutes on each side should be enough to cook the burger and give it a golden colour.

The amount in this recipe makes 5 big burgers. Estimated cost for 5 burgers = under 40 cents (€) per burger.

Recipe #66 Quorn Burger with caramelized onions

For this recipe I used Quorn Burgers, meat free

Shopping list

• 2 handfuls of baby spinach leaves
• 4 big leaves of dark green cabbage, cut into small chunks
• 6 Brussels-sprouts
• 1/2 Courgette sliced finely
• 2-3 teaspoons of powder garlic (depending if you really like garlic)
• Olive oil
• freshly ground black pepper and sea salt
• 600 gr potatoes
• 1 onion
• balsamic vinegar
• 2 teaspoons of sugar
• Nutmeg
• 2 full tablespoons of (vegan) butter

Method

For the greens check 

Recipe #65 Sauteed Greens

For the mash:

Boil the potatoes for about 20min in salt water. They should fall apart when you pierce them with a fork. Dran the water. Add the butter and 1 teaspoon of olive oil. A good dash of black pepper, salt, nutmeg. Mash it together.

For the burger: fry them for 5-8 minutes in olive oil. Take them out and use the same frying pan for the caramelized onions. Add a bit more olive oil and add the onion (chopped in thin loops). Let it get golden. Add a good dash of balsamic vinegar (2-3 tablespoons depending on the size of the onion) and the sugar. Let this thicken on medium heat. (2-5 minutes)