10-Minute High-Protein Wholefood Burger
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- Serves: 3
- Ready: 10
A delicious, easy-to-make burger based around wholefoods which is a real crowd pleaser at BBQs and summer parties!
Ingredients
For the burger patties
- 150 g cooked quinoa (e.g. vacuum-packed cooked quinoa)
- 1 can (400 g) kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 3 tablespoons tamari
- 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon chilli powder
- 150 g mushrooms
- 3 tablespoons gram flour chickpea flour or vegan protein powder
To serve
- 3 burger buns
- vegan mayo
- 50 g pesto or ketchup
- 3 lettuce/kale leaves
- 3 slices of tomato
- 3 gherkins
Method
Prepare the mushrooms: Tear up the mushrooms. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wide-bottom pan over high heat.
Add the mushrooms and place a pot on top to compress them. Cook for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add 1 tablespoon tamari to the mushrooms and cook for an additional minute until all the tamari has been absorbed.
Make the burger mixture: In a large bowl, combine the cooked quinoa, drained and rinsed kidney beans, nutritional yeast, smoked paprika, chilli powder, gram flour (or vegan protein powder), and cooked mushrooms. Using a potato masher or your hands, mash the beans and mix all the ingredients together until well combined.
Form the patties: Shape the mixture into three equal-sized patties.
Cook the patties: Using the same pan you cooked the mushrooms in, heat 2 tablespoons oil over high heat. Fry the patties for 2 minutes on each side until both sides are charred and golden.
Assemble the burgers: Slice the tomatoes and gherkins. Spread some vegan mayo on the bottom bun and pesto or ketchup on the top bun. Place a lettuce leaf on the bottom bun, followed by the burger patty. Add a spoon of pesto or ketchup over the burger patty and spread it out. Top with a slice of tomato and some gherkin slices, then finish with the top bun.
Enjoy your homemade high-protein wholefood burger!
Additional notes
Recipe courtesy of The Happy Pear. Their cookbook The Happy Pear 20: Recipes and Learnings From the First 20 Years is available now.
“This is a delicious, easy-to-make burger that is based around whole foods, unlike a lot of vegan burgers on the market. It only takes 10 minutes to make and is a brilliant source of plant-based protein. We’ve made this loads of times at BBQs and summer parties and it’s always a crowd pleaser! We’ve opted for pre-cooked quinoa to make this recipe easy to whip up in just 10 minutes. But if you wanted to you could also cook the quinoa yourself before making the burgers.”
