Veggie Burger
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
12 burgers
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1 cup brown rice
- 1 cup lentils
- 1 cup chickpea flour
- 1 cup oat flour or 1 cup quick oats
- 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 3 carrots, medium size, shredded
- 1 potato, medium size, shredded
- 1 onion, medium size, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon oregano, dry
- cornmeal (for dusting the baking pan)
- 2 chipotle chiles, finely chopped or 1 teaspoon liquid smoke
- hot pepper sauce, to taste
directions
- Begin by placing 4-1/2 cups of water in an 8-cup covered pot on the stovetop.
- When the water comes to a boil, add the brown rice and lentils, and place the cover on the pot. Reduce the heat to simmer and let cook until all the water is absorbed.
- While the rice and lentils are cooking, wash and peel the carrots, potato, onion, and garlic. We use our food processor to finely shred the veggies, but a hand grater can also be used. If using a food processor, the garlic and chipotle peppers can be chopped in it, too.
- When the brown rice and lentils have absorbed all the water, remove from the stovetop and empty the pot contents into a large mixing bowl. Add the tomato paste and thoroughly mash the ingredients together with a potato masher. Add the shredded and chopped veggies and continue mashing the ingredients together.
- Add a little of the chick pea flour and oat flour or quick oats and continue mashing. [We grind our own chick pea flour and oat flour together in the dry container of our Vita-Mix. (Do not use cooked chick peas or the burgers will be too soft.) Chick pea flour can be purchased in a health food store.].
- Continue to add more of the flour in 1/4 to 1/2 cup portions until all of the ingredients are thoroughly mashed and blended together.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- Thoroughly dust the surface of a large baking pan with corn meal. Form the veggie burger mix into the desired size using a mixing spoon and a smaller spoon, or by forming them in your hands.
- Place the veggie burgers on the baking sheet and flatten to the desired thickness, making sure that the burgers stay circular.
- Place the baking pan in the oven and bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, if you like the outsides of the burgers slightly crispy, or for a shorter time if you want the surface of the burgers to remain softer.
- When the burgers are baked to the desired consistency, remove from the oven and enjoy.
- We freeze the leftover burgers in individual plastic sandwich bags for enjoying at another time. It takes about 1 minute in a microwave oven at "high" to heat a frozen burger (plastic bag removed) for a sandwich.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Kendra PeloJoaquin
Seattle, WA
I learned to cook at a very early age, and like my teacher (mother) I am famous for cooking without recipes. This habit makes for unique delicious *unrepeatable* meals. My plan is to use this site in a way that neither my mother or myself have ever learned to use paper and pen; to record my "concoctions" for posterity.