The Accidental Veggie Burger

So, there we were, in the kitchen with the new juicer. Juicer? What's that got to do with a veggie burger? All will be revealed.

First off, I never intended to make a veggie burger, so many other people have already done that but this was truly an accident. All of the ingredients can be bought quite cheaply and the preparation time is good too.

So, back to the juicer. We originally intended to make vegetable juice from the over ripe reduced vegetables you can get from the local supermarket. That we did. But the by product was all this vegetable pulp and then suddenly eureka! I thought what if we could take that pulp and use it to make a burger?

So, here is how we did it:

Juice up some carrots, celery, tomatoes and one whole onion. Take the pulp and place in a large frying pan or wok which is what I used. Now the amount of burgers you get depends on how much pulp you make but we found and 6 carrots, tomatoes and celery worked quite well. We also added some mushrooms as well.

In the pan add some olive oil or butter, garlic, salt, pepper, one teaspoon of chilli powder, medium curry spice and fennygreek. Now I say one teaspoon of the spices but that is up to you and your taste - some like it stronger, some not at all but the spices really do work well with this recipe.

Heat for about 10 minutes and mix the ingredients well. This is your basic veg mix. From here we made burgers with it but you can also do vegetarian lasagne as well.

Take the mix and add one egg and about half a cup of flour. Mix well. Please note, I used a food processor which makes some of this easier. Once you have mixed in the egg and flour, get some breadcrumbs which you can either buy or take a piece of toast and crumble that up, works just as well.

Take a piece of the mix and roll it in the breadcrumbs. Fry the burgers in olive oil or butter until golden brown on a medium to high heat. That's it! Results - everyone was ecstatic about the flavour and how well they went with just about anything. We served them with some simple green salad and a home made coleslaw.

The mix we made gave us about 25 burgers which only used half of the mix. The other half was used in a lasagne.

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