Sweet Potato and Chickpea Veggie Burgers with Cashew Cheese
Maggie saw a sweet potato burger recipe somewhere that was pretty much mashed potatoes mixed with some panko and griddled. That sounded like eating a mushy desert to me, so I thought I’d try a different approach. Using the Spiralizer and then the food processor I chunked up two potatoes into small granules. A technique we saw used elsewhere to make vegetable riceish. I thought these granules looked vaguely like the little tubes of meat coming through a meat grinder.
I wanted them to keep some texture so I vacuum bagged them with some novoshape, but I assumed I used it like pectinex and didn’t add calcium. ding dong. Anyway, steam the potatoes until they’re cooked through but not mushy.
Ingredient shot of sweet potato burgers
Smash up some chickpeas with the back of a spoon, addd an egg, some flour and panko, and red onion. Stir and form into patties
Sear outside. You want crispy.
Shishito peppers are so easy to make. Add oil to pan. cook on high until they’re crusty and shriveled. Add chunky finishing salt and a squeeze of lemon.
For a great vegan shishito pepper experience, make some cashew cheese- we soak cashews for 5 days in water with a bit of salt at room temperature, changing the water daily. Apparently no one else does this, although I’m sure we looked this up at some point. I donno. I’m confused. Blend the cashews and add a bit of water, salt and lemon rind.
Top sweet potato burger with cashew cheese and avocado. Sprouts are not reccommended as a topping, unless you like the feeling of eating hair out of a burger and overbearing raw starchy taste. They look nice in the picture, but not actually good. I wonder how much people put things on food for looks on pinterest rather than for flavor. It’s an odd concept. Especially the vegan or gluten free replacement recipes where the goal seems to be more of a recreation of the look of food rather than taste, or experience. Anyway, the sprouts came off after a bite and a tomato slice went on. It was good. the texture of the patty was pleasant and it didn’t fall apart. The cashew cheese was great. probably the best we’ve made.
- 2 sweet potatoes
- 1 cup chickpeas
- ½ cup panko
- ¼ cup whole wheat flour
- 1 egg
- burger toppings
- peel potatoes and spiralize
- pulse in food processor until rice grainey
- steam potatoes for 5-10 minutes until just cooked through
- remove chickpea shells until you get bored and smash with the back of a spoon
- stir flour, panko chickpea, egg and sweet potatoes and form into patties
- sear outside of patties crisp and dark
- assemble burger toppings, layer and eat
