Vegetarian burgers with sweet chilli sauce

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Turn vegetarian sausages into burger patties by adding sweet potato and zucchini, and add sweet chilli sauce for extra oomph!

Serves: 4

Time to make: 25 mins

Hands-on time: 10 mins

Ingredients

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1 cup sweet potato/ kumarasweet-potatoX, peeled and grated
1 cup courgettezucchiniXszucchini, summer squashX, grated and excess water squeezed out
1 garlic clove, crushed
2 tablespoons reduced-salt soy sauce
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
6 vegetarian sausages, chopped
1 egg
⅓ cup fresh breadcrumbs
4 seeded bread rolls, halved horizontally
1 onion, sliced, to serve
2 tomatoes, sliced, to serve
1 small avocado, sliced, to serve
3 cups watercress, to serve
4 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce, to serve

Instructions

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1 Spray a large non-stick frying pan with oil and set over a medium heat. Add the kumara and courgette and cook for 3–4 min until soft and quite dry. Add the garlic, soy sauce and parsley and cook for 30 sec. Set aside.

2 Whiz the sausages and egg to a paste in a food processor, then mix through the breadcrumbs and kumara mixture. Shape into 4 burger patties.

3 Spray a non-stick frying pan with oil and set over a medium-high heat. Add the burgers to the hot pan and cook for 4–5 min on each side (turn only when cooked on one side so the burgers don’t break up in the pan) until cooked through. Meanwhile, toast the rolls.

4 To serve, fill each roll with a burger, sliced onion, tomato and avocado, and watercress and sweet chilli sauce.

Nutrition Info (per serve)

Calories 418 cal

Kilojoules 1749 kJ

Protein 20.4 g

Total fat 15.3 g

Saturated fat 2.5 g

Carbohydrates 51.5 g

Sugar 15.1 g

Dietary fibre 7.7 g

Sodium 1260 mg

Calcium 270 mg

Iron 4.8 mg

Note: This nutrition analysis is a guide only. Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. See our guides on your optimal daily nutrition intake, and supermarket shopping.