The Veggie Burger

What's a barbecue without a burger? Barbecues are so much fun, and its so nice to eat a freshly made burger in a bun, with lettuce, tomato, and ketchup. So lets include the vegetarians, in this gorgeous way of eating.

Now I'm still tweaking and adapting this recipe, and I think you can do the same, but here's where I am so far. As with most veggie burgers, you might not be able to cook them actually on the grill, as they may fall apart. So shallow fry them on the hob, then join the rest of the party outside!

I use red kidney beans for my burger, but you can experiment with different kind of beans, like black beans, chick peas, or puy lentils.

Ingredients

1 can of red kidney beans; drained and rinsed

1 medium sized potato; boiled and mashed up

1 onion; chopped
50 grams of bulgar wheat; made to packet instructions
50 grams of bread crumbs

A good handful of parsley; chopped

1 cube of ginger; peeled & grated
1 clove of garlic; finely chopped

1/2 tsp of freshly ground cumin powder

3/4 tsp of ground coriander

1/2 tsp or a bit less of chilli powder (optional)
1 tsp of salt
Pepper for seasoning
Some oil

Method

Heat the oil and the fry the chopped onions on a medium heat for a good 15 minutes. Then add the garlic, ginger, ground coriander, chilli powder and cumin powder. Stir and cook for a further 2-3 minutes, then set aside to cool down. Get a big bowl and add the red kidney beans. Begin to mash these up with a potato masher, but make sure you have some whole kidney beans left in the mix, now gradually add the mashed up potato, bulgar wheat, cooled down onion mix, parsley and breadcrumbs. Add salt and pepper for seasoning. Mix everything really well. I use my hands as you can really make sure everything is combined. Then make into 2 big burgers, or 4 smaller size burgers. Chill until ready to cook.

Heat some oil, in a pan and shallow fry burgers on both sides until done. Make sure you push the burgers up to the sides of the pans so the sides get cooked as well.

Serve, with a lovely toasted bun, fresh lettuce, beef tomatoes, ketchup, and some lovely chips! The above picture has a layer of guacamole too! De-li-ciuos!!!

Enjoy recipe number 4 in my quest to give you 21 brilliant vegetarian barbecue recipes.