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Chickpea and sweet potato burgers

Whizz sweet potato/kumara, chickpeas, spring onions, chilli and lemon zest to make these healthy vegetarian burgers that are low in calories and saturated fat.

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 30 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 3.6
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 3 cups sweet potato/ kumara, peeled and chopped
  • 2 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 400g can chickpeas in water, drained and rinsed
  • 2 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • ¼ teaspoon dried chilli flakes
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flatleaf parsley
  • spray oil
  • 4 sourdough rolls, halved and toasted
  • 100g baby spinach, 1 large tomato, sliced, ½ small avocado, sliced, and ⅓ cup low-fat feta, crumbled, to serve
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Cook the kumara in a large pan of boiling water for 8 min or until very tender. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the sweet chilli sauce and lemon juice, then set aside.

    2 Drain the kumara, then whiz in a food processor with the chickpeas until roughly crushed. Add the spring onions, cumin, chilli flakes and lemon zest and whiz to combine. Gently stir in the eggs and parsley, then divide the mixture into 4 x 10cm burgers.

    3 Spray a frying pan with a little oil, then put over a medium heat and cook the burgers for 2–3 min on each side until golden and cooked.

    4 Top the bottom half of each roll with spinach leaves and a burger patty, then drizzle with the chilli dressing and add tomato and avocado slices, followed by the feta and the roll tops.

    5 comments on Chickpea and sweet potato burgers

    1. Emma Standring July 24, 2021 at 5:30 pm #

      An excellent vegetarian burger.

    2. Kaz Davies August 18, 2021 at 8:29 pm #

      Unfortunately the mixture was too moist and was unable to form into patties.

      • Jen deMontalk August 23, 2021 at 1:20 pm #

        Hi Kaz
        If the mixture is too moist, feel free to add a little flour of fresh bread crumbs to bring it to the consistency you need.

        • Kaz Davies August 30, 2021 at 8:01 pm #

          Ok thank you ????

          • Kaz Davies August 30, 2021 at 8:04 pm #

            Sorry didn’t mean to use ???? It was a smiley face
            Appreciate the suggestion

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