Recipe: Gluten-free Walnut Burgers
from the Savvy Vegetarian
Ingredients:
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1/4 cup minced red onion (2 slices) OR 1 carrot quartered lengthwise and sliced thin
- 1/4 cup minced celery (1 medium stalk)
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled & minced
- 1 tsp yellow mustard powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp dried thyme leaf
- 1/2 tsp dried rosemary leaf
- 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
- 1 cup cooked short grain brown rice (stickier than long grain)
- 1/2 cup dry breadcrumbs
- Gluten Free Option: Use gluten free bread crumbs or 1/4 cup millet flour
- 1/4 cup parsley leaves
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
- Optional: 1 Tbsp or more tahini as needed
- Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
- Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium low
- Peel, remove stem, and mince the garlic
- Mince the onion and celery
- Turn the heat up under the fry pan to medium. Sauté veggies until soft and beginning to brown
- Add herbs & spices and stir for 1 minute
- Add walnuts, veggies & spices, parsley, rice, breadcrumbs and nutritional yeast to food processor, and process until well mixed but not mushy.
- Add salt and pepper to taste
- If you don't have a food processor, mix well using a spatula, smooshing it all together with your hands if necessary
- Add 1 Tbsp or more tahini if the mixture seems too dry to stick together well
- Add more breadcrumbs if it seems too gooey to easily form into patties
- Heat a little oil in a large frying pan on medium. Divide the burger mixture into eight balls, flatten, and fry ten minutes on each side
Posted: to Recipes on Tue, Apr 2, 2013
Updated: Tue, Apr 2, 2013