Vegan Lentil Burgers

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Ready In:
1hr 10mins
Ingredients:
10
Yields:
8 burgers
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ingredients

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directions

  • Boil lentils in the water with the salt for around 45 minutes. Lentils will be soft and most of the water will be gone.
  • Fry the onions and carrot in the oil until soft, it will take about 5 minutes.
  • In a bowl mix the cooked ingredients with the pepper, soy sauce, oats and bread cumbs.
  • While still warm form the mixture into patties, it will make 8-10 burgers.
  • Burgers can then be shallow fried for 1-2 minutes on each side or baked at 200C for 15 minutes.

Questions & Replies

  1. Hi - What kind of lentils should I use?
     
  2. Can I use all breadcrumbs instead of oats and breadcrumbs? This will be the first time I make anything like this so I'm clueless
     
  3. Can you use already cooked lentils? I made a bunch the other day and have probably what the equivalent of dry lentils would be ready to go!
     
  4. In the nutrition information, it states that are serving is 1079 grams, which equals roughly 38 ounces! It also states that the recipe equals one serving, yet the cook says that the recipe makes 8 to 10 burgers. This is extremely confusing. I would like to make this recipe, but I really need some more accurate nutrition information. Can you help?
     
  5. Taste delicious but why are they falling apart?? There is no way I can eat these on a bun.
     
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Reviews

  1. This is my go-to when I make burgers at home. Since I am a vegetarian, I add an egg to help them stay together, but honestly they stick together pretty well anyway. You can also add about a tablespoon of egg replacer with water if you prefer to keep them vegan. <br/><br/>The last time I made these, I also toasted 1/2 cup of quinoa in a frying pan before adding it to cook with the lentils. The nutrition boost and nutty flavor are great! <br/><br/>I use a 1/2 cup measure to form each patty, and get almost exactly 8 burgers each time. We eat 2 and freeze six for easy weeknights later on. I also made them for a new mom and dad who are vegan, and froze them so they could make meals easily during their son's first weeks. They freeze really well, and mom and dad said they were easy to throw in the pan from frozen on a low heat, and they tasted great.<br/><br/>Enjoy! Thanks for the great recipe!
     
  2. I have made this recipe quite a few times and it is by far the best veggie burger recipe that I have ever encountered. Not only are these simple to make, they taste fabulous and the lentils add a really unique flavor. However, the lentils do not really need 45 minutes to cook. Also, I have never bothered with grinding the oats and they still taste wonderful!
     
  3. Turned out amazingly! Made this tonight as a meal prep for future dinners, so I haven't tasted it yet, but the recipe I used worked beautifully. To be fair, I didn't follow the recipe shown exactly. The final product only made 3 regular-sized patties, so I'm not sure where the 8-10 came from unless you're making tiny burgers, but I'm still happy with it either way. I was just kind of experimenting really, and while I was cooking the patties I added some Italian herbs to each side as it browned, which spread and incredible aroma through the room, so I'm guessing it's going to taste just as heavenly when I eat it. Awesome recipe, definitely going to use this again! And maybe follow the recipe properly this time.. ;-)
     
  4. This is great. My 15 year old daughter is a vegetarian and I was on the lookout for something for her. I had all ingredients on hand which is nice. Personal preference-2T soy sauce, less pepper. Also lentils cooked in about 30 minutes. Watch them! Oats ground great in food processer. Fried one minute per side in olive/canola mix. Better than I ever imagined it would be!
     
  5. This is a really good basic veggie burger. I doubled the recipe and baked it in thick rissoles using a half cup measure so increased cooking time to 30 mins. I did add a little extra salt, plus a few pinches of chilli powder and curry powder for a very mild kick. I misread the recipe and did not ground my oats, but it seemed fine. I very rarely comment on a recipe but this seems like a staple I'll make again and again.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I tweaked it just a bit by adding a pound of lean hamburger. That defeats the original purpose, I know, but makes a great veggie burger even better. I also doubled the salt.
     
  2. Instead of ground oats, I used whole oats that I pulled apart from a leftover muesli mix, and I subbed the bread crumbs for roughly the same amount of flour. Also, the only soy sauce I had was some sweet soy sauce, so it was thickened - for this I just added some hot water to it and mixed them together, adding that in and adding some extra flour as well to compensate. The lentils I had were canned rather than dry, so I drained them and added them briefly to my pan after the carrot and onions had browned
     
  3. I used worcester sauce instead of soy sauce
     
  4. Make it a Shepard's Pie if not coming together.
     
  5. I find that yellow lentils get hard when you add salt to them early on. I therefore always salt after boiling. Also made them into fingers for wraps. Delish!
     

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Hi. I live in Birmingham, England, famed for its chocolate and car manufacturing. Its a big multicultural city so getting most ingredients is not a problem, be them Turkish, Indian, Malaysian in origin, you can pretty much get it all somewhere. I am a vegetarian and check that everything I consume is vegetarian, which may get a bit annoying at people's houses and restaurants, but I need to make sure that no dead animals are eaten by me at all. I hate it when people respond to me telling them I am vegetarian by asking me if I eat fish! If I ate fish (or chicken, bacon, gelatin etc.) I would not be a vegetarian, but I guess a lot of people just don't get it. If it had to die, then its not for me! I always wanted to be vegetarian as a child, but its hard when your mom cooks for you and there is no leaving the table until your plate is empty. At around the age of 12 though she realised I was serious and was really good with accepting it then. She would always give me an alternative to the meat the rest of the family was eating, which must have been hard to do when catering for a family and working full time. So thanks for that, Mom. I am defintely vegetarian for moral/ethical reasons. I see no difference between humans and animals (well there is no difference humans are a type of animal ;-)), and cannot understand why we have pet cats, dogs rabbits etc. but are perfectly prepared to eat pigs, sheep and even other rabbits! My poor husband is not a vegetarian, but he doesn't get to eat meat very often, usually only if we eat out, though I do catch him cooking the odd burger now and again, and he seems to be able to add a slice of bacon to just about anything we cook. We do cook together most of the time, though I seem to specialise in soups/stews and him in cakes and sweet things in general - but then he is very sweet himself! I have a daughter who I am bringing up vegetarian. She loves everything I give her to eat so far, especially pudding, just like her Dad. She's still only tiny though so she'll probably hit a picky spot at some point soon. I know she'll have to make her own mind up about eating animals when she is old enough to, and I really hope she picks vegetarian, but it has to be her decision. I love Australia and went back for a third time on my honeymoon a couple of years ago.
 
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