Grilled Lemon-Basil Tofu Burgers
- Ready In:
- 1hr 6mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 78.78 ml finely chopped fresh basil
- 29.58 ml Dijon mustard
- 29.58 ml honey
- 9.85 ml grated lemon rind
- 59.14 ml fresh lemon juice
- 14.79 ml extra virgin olive oil
- 2.46 ml salt
- 1.23 ml fresh ground black pepper
- 4 garlic cloves, minced and divided
- 453.59 g firm tofu or 453.59 g extra firm tofu, drained
- cooking spray
- 78.78 ml finely chopped pitted kalamata olive
- 44.37 ml reduced-fat sour cream
- 44.37 ml light mayonnaise
- 6 hamburger buns
- 6 slice tomatoes
- 236.59 ml trimmed watercress
directions
- Combine first 8 ingredients and 3 garlic cloves in a small bowl.
- Cut tofu crosswise into 6 slices. Pat each square dry with paper towels.
- Place tofu slices on a jelly-roll pan. Brush both sides of tofu slices with lemon juice mixture; reserve remaining juice mixture.
- Let tofu stand 1 hour.
- Prepare grill.
- Place tofu slices on grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill for 3 minutes on each side.
- Brush tofu with the reserved juice mixture.
- Combine remaining 1 minced garlic clove, chopped olives, sour cream, and mayonnaise in a small bowl; stir well.
- Spread about 1 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise mixture over bottom half of each hamburger bun; top each serving with 1 tofu slice, 1 tomato slice, about 2 tablespoons watercress, and top half of bun.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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