Carrot Sesame Burgers

Carrot Sesame Burgers

It’s a splittingly sunny day and we decided instead of heading to the beach it’d be cheaper and more productive to go see Pacific Rim (brilliant film!) and make some burgers.

The main ingredients (carrots, onions, potato, kidney beans) are stuff that were always on the shelves when Conor lived with our friend Paul, who’s currently away where there is probably very hot weather, and are very student staples. The sesame seeds may not be such ‘staples’ but last year they were always around the house and are cheap enough in Lidl/Aldi.

So anyways, BBQ time!

Ingredients:

3 Carrots

2 baby potatoes

1 ½ onions

3-4 cloves garlic

2 cans kidney beans

1 packet cashews

1/3 cup sesame seeds

½ cup flour

Spices: Basil, paprika, thyme, black pepper (to taste)

Preheat oven to 180˚

1. Peel the potatoes and carrots. Boil the potatoes and mash them.

2. Grate the carrots.  Mash the kidney beans.

3. Finely chop the onions and garlic. Put cashews in a blender.

4. Now put them all ingredients together with the spices and flour and roll out into flattened ovals. Put on a well greased baking tray and top with about 1 tsp of oil each. Put in oven and flip over when one side is slightly golden (about 10-15mins), then put in for another 5 mins.

Lovely in some pitta bread with houmous and veg.