Don't misunderstand us: we don't miss meat. Actually we're doing great without since a long time. All this started as an experiment. This time I didn't get much help from the Internet. The purpose of messing around in the kitchen was to bite a juicy hamburger while staying vegetarian on my ID.
Here is a delicious recipe to make some at home.
Ingredients:
400 gr lentils
1 red onion
5 slices of bread (guts and crumbs included)
1 egg
salt, pepper, cumin, garlic
mustard and, if you really wanna feel american ketchup and mayo (for one time you can) :)
Preparation:
Boil the lentils with the onion chopped in small pieces, add salt and drain almost all the water when finished.
Put the lentils in a blender together with the egg, cumin, garlic powder and pepper. Process for about 2 minutes. Add the slices of bread chopped in smaller pieces and process for other 2 minutes. The mix will look a bit drier and that's a good thing so that we can manipulate it later. It should look like the one in the picture below.
Manipulate the mix to make balls that resemble an hamburger. It will be quite difficult but don't panic because the shape will come out later in the pan. Make sure that the pan is quite hot otherwise it will be sticky. Add some coconut oil if you don't trust the nonstick layer of your pan.
Shape it in the pan before it gets too cooked. I was impressed of how similar to meet it looked.
Once you get there, slice your bread and grill it a bit, slice some tomato and add a large leave of salad to your wonderful hamburger like in the picture.
Enjoy!
ATTENTION: No animal has been killed to provide the pictures above :)
