VEGGIE BURGERS

 Veggie Burgers
This recipes was very spontaneous.  Had no idea what to make tonight.  (?)   How about veggie burgers.   Here we go.    
My one and only food critic love them.  So it's a winner.  :)

INGREDIENTS:

1 can of Garbanzo beans
4 garlic cloves
1 half of a medium white onion.
1 celery stick
3 Tablespoons of red lentils.
1/2 Teaspoon of each:
Cumin
Turmeric
Cinnamon
Basil
1 cup Panko Bread crumbs
3 Table spoons water.
Cooking spray
Brown rice.  Try for the round shaped rice, rather than long grain. It works better.
3 inch cookie cutter.
1 red onion.

 Chop up the onion, garlic and celery and put in a pan with no oil.  Turn the burner to Medium high.  Cook and stir occasionally until the onion are light brown. This is called caramelization. Well in this case very light.













Cook the Lentils next. Cover with water and bring to a boil. When they turn yellow from  orange and open up their done.  They have a very nutty taste.  Left is uncooked and right is cooked.

  Put the Garbanzo beans in the food proccessor and break them up and add three table spoon of water.

Put the G-beans in a bowl and mix in spices.


















Now add bread crumbs, lentils and lightly caramelization onions.  Mix in good.

Now add the brown rice.   And mix in very well.
Note: Brown rice cooks just a little bit longer than white rice. 2 cups of brown rices to 4 1/2 cups of water.  Bring to a boil, The water will not rise to the top of the lid,  So Watch it, when it start to boil, do not turn it to low. But instead slightly above low.  It should have a nice simmer to it.   Keep the lid on and when you see the water and bubbling subside all the way turn it off and let it rest.

The moisture content to these were perfect.  Shape into 6 large balls.

A three inch cookie work great for making patties.
Press into the cookie cutter.  And gently remove.

here we have our patties.

Spary a pan really good.

So were just brown them now.  Basically if you want you can skip this part, because well their basically already to go.  ;)  But it dose give a nice flavor.

Don't for get the onion.  These are really better BBQ.
Put in a pan on high heat. And cook until they look a little burnt or brownish on either side.   These should cook very fast.

VEGGIE BURGERS.  Yummy.     Here is what we used.   Tomatoes, Avocados, Mayo, Ketsup and the red onion.  

Enjoy