Veggie Burger
Veggie burger is made with burger buns and a crisp veggie and bean based patty, served with sweet caramelized onion, fresh tomatoes and a mix of mayonnaise and ketchup.
Ingredients
- 0.5 cup Kidney Beans or Rajma
- 3 Potatoes
- 2 Carrots
- 3 Onions
- 2 Tomatoes
- ½ cup Green Peas
- ½ Sweet Corn
- ½ Capsicum
- 15 slices Pickled Jalapenos
- 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- 2 tsp Paprika or Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder
- 2 tsp Roasted Cumin Powder
- 1 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- 3 tbsp Plain Flour
- 3 tbsp Corn Flour
- 2 cups Bread Crumbs
- 3 tbsp Chopped Coriander Leaves
- ¼ cup Eggless Mayonnaise
- ¼ cup Tomato Ketchup
- 1 tbsp Red Chilli Sauce
- 6 Iceberg Lettuce Leaves soaked in ice cold water
- 6 Cheese Singles
- 6 Burger Buns
- Oil for frying
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Soak the kidney beans or rajma overnight and pressure cook with some salt.
- Drain the rajma water and let it dry for sometime. Mash the Rajma roughly.
- Boil the potatoes along with some salt and mash them. Do not overcook the potatoes.
- Boil sweet corn, chopped carrots and peas with some salt and drain them well. Once they are dried, mash them. Do not overcook the veggies.
- For making the bread crumbs, blitz 6-7 slices of white bread in a mixer.
- Now in a large mixing bowl, add the mashed rajma, potatoes and veggies and add half cup of bread crumbs, 1 finely chopped onion, 6 to 7 pieces of picked jalapenos finely chopped, finely chopped capsicum, finely chopped coriander, kashmiri red chilli or paprika powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, garam masala, 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste, 1 tablespoon corn flour, 1 tablespoon plain flour, salt to taste. Mix all the ingredients well and bind to a dough type consistency. Do not add any water while mixing.
- The mixture should look like this once well mixed.
- Take a big portion of this mix and roll and flatten with hands to the shape of a disc type patty. Roll the corners on a flat surface for perfect corners. Repeat this process for the remaining mixture. This recipe should yield approximately 6 veggie patties.
- Take 2 tablespoons of corn flour and plain flour each and add around ¾ cup water and a pinch of salt and mix well and make a slurry.
- Spread the remaining breadcrumbs on a plate.
- Now coat the patty on both the sides in the slurry.
- Now coat the patty in the breadcrumbs.
- Repeat coating the patty in slurry one more time and in the bread crumbs again.
- Do this double coating of slurry and bread crumbs for all the remaining patties.
- Freeze the prepared patties in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
- In the meanwhile, dice the onions lengthwise and deep fry them on medium flame till they are golden brown. Keep them aside.
- Mix mayonnaise, ketchup and chilli sauce to form a homogeneous sauce. Keep them aside.
- Soak the iceberg lettuce leaves in ice cold water. Cut the tomatoes in round pieces.
- Heat oil in a kadai or pan and fry the frozen patties on a medium flame till it is golden brown in colour. You could also shallow fry them.
- Drain the patties on a kitchen towel.
- Cut the burger buns in half and toast them slightly on tawa with some butter.
- Apply the mayonnaise and ketchup mixture generously on both sides on the toasted bun.
- Now on the base of the bun, keep one slice of cheese single, lettuce leaves, followed by the fried patty, two slices of tomato, some pickled jalapenos pieces, fried onion.
- Place the top piece of the toasted bun and serve hot along with some French fries or Potato Wedges.
Notes
- It is very important to drain the water from the boiled rajma and veggies thoroughly. Any residual water would make the patties mushy.
- Double coating the patties with the flour slurry and breadcrumbs would yield crispier patties.
- Make sure to press the breadcrumbs in the patty well to ensure they stick to the patty, else they could separate out of the patty while frying.
- Freezing the patty is an important step, as it firms up the patty and it is easier to fry.
- Fry the patties on a medium hot oil, else they would turn brown quickly and doughy inside.
- You could also shallow or pan fry the patties.
- You could also use raw slices of onions instead of caramelized onions. In addition to this you could also add some sliced cucumber if you wish.