Brown Rice Hazelnut Burgers With Baked Onion Rings

April 21, 2014

H5N1 calendar month or ii agone nosotros picked upwards a cut-price re-create of Julie Hasson's Vegan Diner. Although I'd excitedly flicked through it inwards bookshops inwards the past, I wasn't actually certain what I wanted to endeavour out of it. I estimate I know my means but about vegan junk nutrient already, amongst burgers in addition to scrambles in addition to muffins in addition to waffles already accomplished many times over, in addition to I actually don't demand a recipe to mix together soy milk in addition to store-bought vegan icecream (I'm looking at you, Mocha Malt on page 154). That said, delight country me you lot favourite recipes from this book! I desire to give it a goodness chance.

One recipe that did grab my oculus was for chocolate-brown rice hazelnut burgers. They're definitely a weekend project - chocolate-brown rice needs cooking, mushrooms demand sauteing, hazelnuts demand roasting in addition to they all demand cooling earlier they larn far to a nutrient processor, allow solitary an oven. The burger mixture is a piffling frail in addition to needs gentle treatment in addition to flipping to avoid crumbling. But the fourth dimension in addition to assist taken paid us dorsum amongst a bumper batch of actually overnice patties; a savoury, mincey texture, a slightly charred crust, in addition to a distinctive nuttiness. They're a goodness stand-in for minced beef burgers. We stacked them amongst a uncomplicated Vegan Diner sauce, tomatoes, grated fresh carrot in addition to beetroot, in addition to spinach leaves on lightly toasted rye bread.

I too tried my manus at onion rings for the start time. There are a yoke of recipes for them inwards Vegan Diner but those involved deep-frying, in addition to I preferred to line out an oven-baked version that I'd bookmarked on Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit years ago.

I started out strategically. Since the burger mix too included an onion, nosotros sliced both onions into rings, picked the best ones for battering in addition to thus scooped the messier one-half into the patties. I crushed upwards some cornflakes inwards lieu of breadcrumbs, but they speedily clumped upwards in addition to refused to adhere to the batter-dipped onion rings. In a gibe of desperation I variety aside the cornflakes in addition to used a 2nd dusting of flour on the remaining rings. They looked much to a greater extent than promising.

Surprisingly, the yoke of cornflake-crusted rings (pictured right, above) were the alternative of the bunch, deeply caramelised in addition to really crunchy. The flour-doused rings (picture left, above) were nonetheless pleasant but notably dustier. I'd dearest to uncovering a means to brand the cornflake crumbs consistently clingier. Then again, I solely assay onion rings occasionally in addition to they're increasingly accessible at Melbourne's many burger joints. I mightiness but exit them to the experts.

Brown rice hazelnut burgers
(slightly adapted from Julie Hasson's Vegan Diner)

1/2 loving cup chocolate-brown rice
1 3/4 cups water
1 loving cup TVP
2 teaspoons olive crude oil
200g mushrooms, sliced
1 loving cup hazelnuts
3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1 minor chocolate-brown onion, roughly chopped
1/4 loving cup gluten flour
1/4 loving cup wholemeal flour
2 tablespoons chickpea flour
1/4 loving cup parsley, chopped
common salt in addition to pepper
spray oil

Place the chocolate-brown rice in addition to 1 loving cup of the H2O inwards a minor saucepan. Bring them to the boil, thus plow downward the estrus in addition to simmer the rice until all the H2O is absorbed, almost 45 minutes. Set the rice aside to cool down.

Bring the remaining H2O to the boil inwards a kettle. Place the TVP inwards a heatproof bowl in addition to pour over the boiling water. Stir it through in addition to allow the H2O to absorb in addition to the TVP to cool down.

Heat an oven to 120°C in addition to roast the hazelnuts for but about thirty minutes. Allow them to cool for a few minutes, them rub off their skins using a newspaper towel. Discard the skins in addition to roughly chop the nuts.

Heat the olive crude oil inwards a frypan in addition to add together the mushrooms. Saute them for almost five minutes, until soft. Set them aside to cool down.

Turn the oven upwards to 180°C. Line a large baking tray amongst paper.

Place the mushrooms, garlic in addition to onion inwards a nutrient processor in addition to pulse them until finely chopped. Add the TVP, rice in addition to hazelnuts in addition to pulse farther - but until finely chopped, non pureed. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl in addition to stir inwards the iii flours, parsley, common salt in addition to pepper until but combined. Form the mixture into patties in addition to house them on the baking tray. Spray them amongst crude oil in addition to bake for fifteen minutes on each side.


Special sauce
(slightly adapted from Julie Hasson's Vegan Diner)

1/4 loving cup vegan mayonnaise
2 tablespoons ketchup
1/2 teaspoon agave nectar
dash of paprika
common salt in addition to pepper

Mix together all the ingredients inwards a bowl.


Baked onion rings
(from Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit, where it's credited to
Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Appetite for Reduction)

1 large onion
1/3 loving cup manifestly flour
1 tablespoon cornflour
1/2 loving cup almond milk
1/2 teaspoon apple tree cider vinegar
1/2 loving cup crushed cornflakes, breadcrumbs or manifestly flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon olive crude oil
spray oil

Preheat an oven to 230°C. Line a baking tray amongst paper.

Peel the onion in addition to while it into thick rings. Separate the rings out in addition to house a newspaper towel over them to trim down the fumes.

Stir together the flour in addition to cornflour inwards a minor broad bowl. Whisk inwards one-half of the almond milk. Whisk inwards the apple tree cider vinegar in addition to remaining almond milk until you lot get got a smoothen batter.

In a split minor broad bowl, mix together the crumbs, common salt in addition to olive crude oil amongst your fingers.

Set yourself upwards an assembly trouble amongst onions, batter, crumbs in addition to baking tray. With your 'batter hand' alternative upwards onion rings in addition to dunk them inwards the batter, dropping them inwards the crumbs. Then purpose your 'crumb hand' to ensure they're good coated inwards crumbs in addition to transfer the rings to the baking tray. Repeat until you've used upwards all the rings. Spray the trays in addition to rings amongst crude oil in addition to bake for fifteen minutes, turning i time half-way through.