OH.MY.WORD

I’ve had several attempts at making quinoa burgers and they mostly failed each time – usually because they just don’t hold together on cooking and I end up with a crumbly mess.  A tasty crumbly mess but not very photogenic and not exactly a recipe I want to share!  The answer came after watching this video and how they nearly all used some kind of bean in their mixture!

Now I LOVE beans and don’t need much of an excuse to use them and they definitely helped keep this burger mixture moist and soft yet enough of a bind that they held together REALLY well.   And I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner when falafel burgers are an absolute staple in our house.

I’ve seen quite a few generic veggie burger recipes that tell you to use raw veg in the mixture before turning into burgers and cooking.  In all honesty I find the crunch of a practically raw vegetable in the middle of a soft veggie burger not a nice texture so I always saute anything that can be before adding to the mixture.

The final and EXCEPTIONAL ingredient is the absolutely heavenly New Roots vegan Camembert cheese.  I wish this stuff was more widely available as it’s the best vegan cheese I’ve tried so far (if you have any other, easier to get hold of recommendations though I’d love to know until I can get my paws on some more New Roots!)  Honestly, it’s quite magical what they can do with cashew nuts!

I also tried baking the burgers as well as frying them.  Baking did not work – they still looked anaemically pale and not very appetising!  They only need a tiny drizzle of oil for frying for the perfect crispy jacket.

I was also recently sent some Ora Kitchen Towels – and they’re quite ingenious!  Cut into circles and carefully folded into cones they’re perfect for holding a potentially messy burger while eating – mostly because I tend to overfill my burger buns and it’s some kind of challenge to gravity to keep it all contained while eating ?

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If you make this recipe or any of the recipes from The Cook & Him we’d LOVE to see! Just snap a picture and share it on Instagram using #thecookandhim and tagging @thecookandhim in the photo itself (as this guarantees we’ll see your picture!)

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