What’s For Dinner? Quinoa Burgers
These Quinoa Burgers are a delicious meatless burger option! Full of flavour and healthy ingredients, these are a delicious vegetarian burger.
I must confess this recipe is a little tedious, but these burgers are well worth the effort, they’re so delicious. Even the kids liked them. The flavour is amazing, but they are really, really crumbly. I mean, how can they not be with the main ingredient being quinoa. The key to reducing the crumbliness is to make sure you refrigerate the mixture before cooking…and to use a really good flipper.
Recipe Tips:
- Quinoa: Use cooked quinoa for this recipe. This recipe is a great way to use up leftover quinoa.
- Food Processor: Let your food processor do all the prep work for these burgers.
- Buns: Serve these quinoa burgers on buns. They’re also great wrapped up in tortilla (I used the leftovers for a wrap the next day for lunch!)
- Let it rest! Make sure you let the mixture rest in the fridge for at least 1 hour. This mixture needs this time to cool so you can shape it into patties.
- Toppings: These burgers are delicious served with tzatziki sauce and sliced red peppers, and all of your favourite burger toppings.
Quinoa Burgers
These Quinoa Burgers are a delicious meatless burger option! Full of flavour and healthy ingredients, these are a delicious vegetarian burger.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Resting Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 burgers 1x
- Category: Burger
Ingredients
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- 2 cups cooked Quinoa (cook according to package directions)
- 1 cup cremini mushrooms
- 1/2 cup chickpeas
- 1 small zucchini, grated
- 1 carrot, grated
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 –2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 cup whole wheat bread crumbs
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
Trimmings:
- tzatziki sauce
- sliced red peppers
- lettuce
- tomatoes
- onions
Instructions
- In a food processor, pulse the shredded zucchini and shredded carrots, until crumbly. Transfer to a bowl. Set aside.
- Then pulse the mushrooms in the food processor until they are crumbly. You can transfer them over to the bowl of zucchini and carrots.
- In a fry pan, heat up some oil, then cook onions and garlic until translucent (about 5 minutes).
- Then add the mix of mushrooms, zucchini, and carrots to the fry pan with the onions and garlic. Cook until all the liquid disappears. About 10-15 minutes.
- While the mixture cooks, pulse the chickpeas in the food processor until they are crumbly.
- In a bowl, mix together bread crumbs and egg, then add the chickpea mix. Combine.
- Add mushroom mix to the breadcrumb/chickpea mix. Add salt and pepper. Combine.
- Add the cooked quinoa. Combine.
- Refrigerate mix for about 1 hour.
After the mix is done cooling:
- Shape the quinoa mixture into patties.
- Heat up about 2 – 3 tbsp of oil in a clean frying pan.
- Cook the patties in the frying pan for about 4-5 minutes on each side.
- Serve on buns with tzatziki sauce, and all of your favourite burger trimmings: lettuce, tomato, onions.
- Options: Or wrap up in a whole wheat tortilla with the tzatziki sauce and trimmings.
Side Dish Ideas to serve with your burgers:
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Oh gosh! I’m going to have to try this too! Looks Delish!
Oh yum! I have been looking for recipes with quinoa- there are NOt many- I just started cooking with it- I will try your recipe! I’d love it if you shared this with WorkShop Wednesday. It would make a great addition to the party!
I make quinoa fritters all the time and they are something like this. I’ve never tried it with chickpeas but it sounds fabulous. Love this vegetarian entree!
Stunning picture and great recipe!It looks so yummy! I love the blog tittle. Thanks for sharing!
Hope to see you on my blog:)
This sounds {and looks} wonderful. I’m always looking for new ways to get away from meat and I love quinoa. Thanks so much for sharing.
Jo
How delicious! Those burgers sound wonderful and I love your pretty picture. Meatless Monday sounds like a good idea to me. We try to go meatless once a week also, but we don’t have a set day for it. Thanks for coming by to share your recipe!
Katie
What a gorgeous photo! That looks delicious. I can’t wait to try it!
How many burgers the recipe makes?
Looks delicious!