I’m a big fan of veggie bean burgers. Not the shop bought ones though, I don’t know what they do to those to make them taste so awful, but nothing beats a good home made veggie burger except, perhaps, a good home made barbecued beef burger – I’m not a vegetarian! Nonetheless, veggie bean burgers are a great way to pack in some fibre and they are one of my favourite ways to use up leftover mashed potatoes.
Using budget brand kidney beans in water, supermarket own brand mature cheddar you can make this burger recipe feed a family of 4-6 for a matter of pennies. This particular batch was coated in crumbs made from a failed Skoki Health Bread recipe I made awhile ago for the Random Recipes food blogging challenge (and there’s a little story in that post about that time I was lassoed, should you be interested!). I detest food waste and I’m so glad I’ve managed to make good use from the failed loaves.
The recipe itself is inspired by one found over at Spice Up the Curry. The first time I made the burger as directed and it was rather hot indeed. My poor partner suffered a bit the next day! So, I’ve tweaked it over subsequent batches and I’ve come up with the recipe below which is reminiscent of an onion bhaji, my OH says. He prefers his in a burger bun, and I prefer mine on its own with a side salad.
Regular readers will be aware that I’ve promised myself I would not blog much this month. I’m finishing up (or trying to!) my dissertation for a BSc (Hons) Life Sciences degree with the Open University so my blog has should take a bit of a back burner. As such, I’m not making individual recipes to share with blogging challenges, but I am going to share this post with quite a few, so scroll down to the very bottom of this post for all the details. 🙂
Ozeri Green Earth Pan Review:
Some months ago I was sent a gorgeous 8″ Green Earth Pan by Ozeri to try out and review. I’ve been using it regularly since I received it and I have to say it is my most favourite pan I have ever owned. It’s made from an ultra-safe 100% PTFE and PFOA free ceramic non-stick Ecozeri multilayered coating derived completely from nature. This means that little bits of cancer-causing stuff won’t come off the pan and get into your food. I dread to think how much Teflon I’ve ingested over the years with my knackered old pans (which have now been binned!).
I love this pan. It really is non-stick, meaning you can use less oil, and the colour and style are superb. My only criticism is that I think a better quality plastic handle could have been used since the ceramic pan itself is such high quality, but the handle is serviceable and the whole thing is remarkably easy to clean. You don’t have to worry about scratching the surface with cleaning utensils, as you do when working with chemical non-stick coated products. It’s even dishwasher and oven safe! Yes, it’s a pretty awesome pan and I want to invest in the whole range!
Please note, I was sent this product to review and all opinions are my own.
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 400 gram tin kidney beans in water, drained
- 1 large onion, finely sliced
- 1 inch segment ginger root, grated
- 1 red chili, seeded and finely diced
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 200 grams cold leftover mashed potatoes
- 50 grams mature cheddar cheese, grated
- handful coriander leaves, chopped
- 4 spring onions, finely chopped
- 1 egg (optional)
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- plain flour
- 1 egg beaten with 1 tbsp cold water
- breadcrumbs
- sunflower oil, for frying
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: Serves 4
Alphabakes, a challenge alternately hosted by Caroline Makes and Ros at The More Than Occasional Baker, which gets us baking to a certain letter each month. This month the letter is G. This recipe includes both ginger and garam masala, two G’s!
Feel Good Food over at A Kick at the Pantry Door. Victoria Lee’s new blogging challenge asks us to share our recipes on a themed ingredient which offers health benefits and makes you feel good. This month that ingredient is ginger! This challenge is a blog hop, so scroll down and see what other foodies are making with ginger!
Lastly, I am sharing this recipe with Turquoise Lemons‘ No Waste Food Challenge hosted this month (and next) by myself as this recipe uses up leftover mashed potatoes and breadcrumbs from a failed recipe.
Kohlrabi & Apple Salad
I do love a nice bean burger – I often have mine with beans which may be overdoing it a tad lol but I love beans. Even meat devouring hubby loves a nice spicy bean burger. Yours sounds lovely.
Nothing beats a good bean burger! 🙂
These look absolutely delicious and I’d really love to give them a go this weekend!
My 13 year old doesn’t like coriander (!) so I added some chopped Curry Plant leaves to the mixture instead… I always wondered what I was going to use the plant for 🙂 Thank you for a lovely recipe! xx
Elizabeth these look amazing as always! Great recipe, and just goes to show that burgers don’t have to be meaty to be fabulous! Thanks so much for linking up with Feel Good Food as always, and good luck with finishing the dissertation 🙂
Aw thank you!
I love a good multi blog challenge recipe 🙂 The burger is screaming “eat me” from the screen! I love veggie burgers – much more than the meat variety as I rarely eat beef and chicken tends to be tough and overcooked in burgers. Great use of G ingredients – thanks for entering AlphaBakes.
Hehe, thanks! Glad you like the sound of it 🙂
Made these red bean burgers tonight. Fabulous. I did add some green lentils to the mix. Grandma and Grandad loved them as well.
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Yay! What a lovely comment to wake up to! I’m so glad you all enjoyed them and I bet the addition of green lentils made them even better! xx
yum yum yum, red bean burgers look irresistibly scrumptious 🙂
Thank you, I do think they are rather scrummy indeed!
What a BEAUTY of a burger, I LOVE it! Thanks for entering this into Cooking with Herbs, Karen
Thanks Karen!
That looks like a wonderful recipe 🙂 And good luck with your dissertation! I’m supposed to be working on my thesis… there’s no better incentive to get in the kitchen than to avoid my write-up 😉
Thank you, and I agree! Cooking is my #1 procrastination method, ha! Good luck with your own paper 🙂
That looks awesome and it sounds really tasty with the red beans and ginger root. think I will have to try this. Thansk for sharing. Vickie
Thank you 🙂 I quite like the flavours in this veggie burger, the perfect mix of hot and savoury.
look at that whopper!… it’s so thick and packed with fabulous stuff… I too adore a veggie burger and mine would be dripping with cheese!.. perfection and a lovely recipe x
Thanks Dom! 🙂 I don’t like it when the burger doesn’t fit the inside of the bun, myself, so I make ’em nice and big.
Your burger looks fabulous and I’m very envious of the green pan. I don’t use non-stick because of non-stickness possibly coming off, so I’d love to get my hands on one of these. You’ve done very well on your challenges for this one – I think I might be using a couple for this morning’s post.
Thank you! It is a pretty awesome pan and it’s nice not having to worry about chemicals.
This veggie burger looks fab! Just found your blog and already love it 🙂
Thank you very much, I’m delighted! I do hope you return 🙂
I’ll definitely be trying these once new potato season is over. My mum would kill me if I used homegrown new potatoes as mash! I might have to try it as a veggie sausage filling too.
Mmm homegrown potatoes are the best! Let me know how you get on if you try it as a veggie sausage filling – great idea!
1st time on your blog and this recipe is drool worthy.I am going to book mark it and try it out.Thanks for linking it to Lets cook with Cheese event.
Thank you! I do hope you will return 🙂