Chickpea Burgers ( #fridayfeasts at #thebreakfastclub)

Hello everyone

I thought for this week's Friday feast I would share a family favourite with you. Chickpea burgers. Very easy to make, nutritious, nice hot or cold, can be made in advance and fridged, work well as a veggie option on the barbeque and take hardly anytime to prepare or cook, can be made from store cupboard staples and so are great when you are in a hurry.

Ingredients

1 can chickpeas (400g ish) drained
1 medium onion
3 slices of bread (Gluten free would work too)
large pinch salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp ground cumin (or 1 of  ground, 1 of seeds)
1 egg
1 tbsp oil for frying

Method

1  Peel and finely cop the onion, then saute until cooked, but not coloured

2  In a food processor, whizz up the chick peas until they look like this...

3  Add slices of bread and re blend

4  Add all of the spices, salt, egg and onions and whizz up some more

   Now for the messy part, making your burgers.

5  Firstly put a frying pan on to a medium heat with the oil, and wet your hands (this helps to stop the mixture sticking to you)

6  Now take egg sized amounts of the mixture and make into patties, they should be about the size of jam tart and about 1-2 cm thick

7  You will probably have about 10 burgers. If you don't need them straight away, cover them and fridge them, otherwise fry them in two batches. A couple of minutes on each side should be enough to brown them and heat them through

8  Serve straight away in a pitta bread or tortilla wraps with salad, or in a roll with sauce, or on their own with a chutney or sweet chilli sauce. OR let them cool and pack them up for lunch boxes or picnics 

Hints, tips and ideas

These burgers would taste nice with some fresh coriander in the mixture, or a bit of chilli if you like heat.

For a fresh taste add chopped spring onions or chives.

Serve them up with a yoghurt and mint sauce or with sweet chilli and salads.

Work well in pitta breads for lunch boxes.

Let us know what you think.

Regards

Ruth

This is a very cheap meal, you can use stale bread, a can of chick peas is roughly 50p and 1 egg, then you have enough to feed 4 people.

I have used tinned chickpeas because re hydrating the dried ones never quite gets them to the same texture, I save the dried ones for casseroles, Moroccan stews and hummous