Who needs meat to get in on the burger scene? These super low-cost chickpea burgers are a healthy alternative to beef or chicken, and are much easier and quicker to throw together in a hurry.
Chickpea Burgers
- Prep Time:10 mins
- Cook Time:6 mins
- Total Time:16 mins
- Servings:5
- Easy
- 1 can chickpeas
- 1/2 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 5 tablespoons plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon basil
- 1/4 teaspoon chilli powder
- Salt + pepper
- Olive oil
Ingredients
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Step 1
First off, dice your onion and garlic.
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Step 2
Next, open and drain your chickpeas then sling 'em in a bowl along with your diced onion and garlic.
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Step 3
Hand blenders at the ready everyone, here comes the difficult part. Get stuck in with your whizzing death stick and pulverise the contents of the bowl until it's a smooth paste. If you want to take the easy way out, then use a food processor, but to be truly hardcore, do what my flatmate did when he first tried this recipe and go at it with a fork (expect rippling biceps as a result).
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Step 4
Add your seasonings and stir in with a spoon until it's fully mixed.
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Step 5
To make this mixture more workable, add the flour a tablespoon at a time until it pulls together into a thicker, dough-like substance which you can mould with your hands into patties. The amount of flour can vary, so just keep going until it resembles a sticky bread dough. Your patties should be whatever diameter your buns are and about an 3/4 of an inch thick.
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Step 6
Heat up some oil (around 2 tablespoons) in a saucepan at around mid-high heat and fry on each side until crispy and brown (around 3 minutess a side). This recipe makes around 5 decent-sized burgers. If you like, you can add some thin slices of cheese onto the top of the burger after you flip it the first time for a good melty finish.
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Step 7
Serve up with whatever burger ingredients you like; I've gone for cheddar, mozarella, salad, mayo, gherkin, and tomato.
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