Lemon & Sage White Edible Bean Burgers

February 26, 2013

This weblog has been pretty heavy on the eating theater posts lately, reflecting our lack of domicile cooking enthusiasm over the final few months (in business office cheers to trips away to this elementary burger recipe from the tropical vegan was a pretty adept to recapture my cooking mojo.

There's non a lot to it - specially if you lot stimulate got the lazy pick of using canned beans similar nosotros did - but the results are excellent. The patties concord their cast good in addition to are hearty in addition to filling amongst dainty subtle flavours from the lemon in addition to sage. We didn't stimulate got the discover energy for the roasted eggplant sauce that Theresa whipped up, so Cindy recreated the dipping sauce from the previous night's rice newspaper rolls, which was a fine substitute. We ended upward getting 3 meals out of these patties in addition to I actually enjoyed them every fourth dimension - something to add together to our regular burger rotation.

Lemon & sage white edible bean burgers

(based on this recipe from the tropical vegan)

ii cans cannellini beans, rinsed in addition to drained

1/4 loving cup olive oil

juice of ii modest lemons

1 teaspoon dried, solid position down sage

1/2 loving cup polenta

1/2 loving cup gluten flour

common salt in addition to pepper

Combine the beans, olive oil, lemon juice in addition to sage inwards a big bowl in addition to larn out them to soak together for equally long equally you lot tin hold upward bothered (I solely read the recipe 1 time I was hungry, so they solely marinated for 10 minutes or so).

Mash the beans upward equally best you lot tin -  you lot desire to stimulate got a fairly polish mush without also many distinct beany bits remaining.

Stir inwards the polenta in addition to generous sprinkles of common salt in addition to pepper. Add inwards the gluten flour in addition to knead the dough for a few minutes - it should hold upward a pretty enterprise dough past times the fourth dimension you're done.

Form the mixture into patties (we ended upward amongst vi good-sized burger patties from the quantities above) in addition to and so nipper over medium rut for v minutes or so on each side. 

Serve inwards rolls, amongst salad in addition to the condiment of your choosing.