Mushroom & chickpea burgers
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 20 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4High in fibre and low in fat, these veggie burgers with spiced yogurt are the healthy way to enjoy fast food
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
- Healthy
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 271
- protein
- 15g
- carbs
- 40g
- fat
- 7g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 6g
- sugar
- 4g
- salt
- 1.13g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 250g chestnut mushrooms, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 bunch spring onions, sliced
- 1 tbsp medium curry powder
- zest and juice ½ lemon
- 400g can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 85g fresh wholemeal breadcrumbs
- 6 tbsp 0% Greek yogurt
- pinch ground cumin
- 2 mixed-grain muffins or rolls, toasted and halved
- 2 plum tomatoes, sliced
- handful rocket leaves
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Method
- Heat 1 tsp oil in a non-stick frying pan and cook the mushroom, garlic and spring onion for 5 mins. Mix in the curry powder, lemon zest and juice and cook for 2 mins or until mixture looks quite dry. Tip out onto a plate to cool slightly.
- Use a potato masher or fork to mash the chickpeas in a bowl, leaving a few chunky pieces. Add the mushroom mix and the crumbs, then shape into 4 patties. Fry in the remaining oil for 3-4 mins on each side until crisp and browned.
- Mix the yogurt with the cumin. Place half a muffin on each plate, then spread with the yogurt. Top with the burgers, a few slices of tomato and a little rocket.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2010
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I made some adjustments after reading reviews; adding an egg to help the mix hold it's shape, adding more spices.. But they fell apart very quickly, either in the pan or as soon as I bit into it and I didn't like the flavour. I also froze a few but they were even more soggy and hard to handle after that. Not great.
I added juice from the whole lemon and reduced the amount of breadcrumbs to make these stickier, after reading comments about the burgers falling apart. This worked really well. Didn't have quite enough mushrooms, so used half a red pepper which gave it a nice colour variation. Also added dried coriander and a smidge of cumin for extra flavour. Very tasty, lemon works well!
The secret I think for anyone whose fell apart is just to leave them in the pan for quite a while as they start to dry out a bit and this makes them stick together better. When there is a lot of oil and the pan is wet, they fall apart. Mine came out ok with an egg and a good mid-week supper with some salad!
I wish I'd checked the comments before cooking these straight from the free Good Food app I had downloaded. I now know to add an egg to bind the mixture as mine did indeed fall apart a bit! Very nice though, would definitely make again. I'd probably add some fresh chilli next time as I like my food hot. You could pretty much experiment with any herb or spice really.
I really dislike this recipe. The burgers don't stay together well at all, and they taste solely of curry powder. Using lovely chestnut mushrooms was a complete waste for this recipe. Maybe if chilli, your own selection of spices and more cumin was used in the mayonnaise it could be more enjoyable, but I would not make these again.
