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- Hi, I'm Chef Robert
Irvine for BodyBuilding.com
and today we're gonna show you
how to make vegetarian burgers
with a difference.
You know vegetarian burgers can be
held together or binded
by many different things,
so today we're gonna use unusual binders.
Unusual binding for me is a rice.
A brown rice or a white rice
that we've cooked, strained,
and left nice and wet.
And the reason we leave it wet
is because that is the
moisture we're gonna need
to bind the product together.
We're gonna take some
sauteed garlic and onions.
Some white beans, cannellini beans.
Some black beans.
And some corn.
Now here's the thing,
you can add literally any
vegetable you wish to this.
The base here is the rice
and that's what's gonna give us that
whole binding the cake together.
Mix together.
Take a little bit of chopped dill.
And again, any other
fresh herb that you like.
And we're just gonna use our hands
to try and mix together.
Now, if the rice is not cooked enough
all we need to do is take
a little bit of rice flour
to bind the cake together.
It won't become gummy,
and you can see it's adding.
The rice flour's picking
up all the moisture.
But I did something really cool here.
I added some beets to some hot water.
Blended them together
after they were cooked
and I'm gonna add them the beets
for a different depth of flavor.
Together.
It will turn the cake a little a bit red.
But the flavor, the
earthiness of the beets
gives a great, great taste to this burger.
Now, you're gonna make a couple of cakes.
Hands get messy on this one,
so it's good for the
kids to help you with.
But look how much it binds
and how pretty it looks
right now.
And again, if you wanna put mushrooms,
if you wanna put mangoes.
You wanna put anything else in, you can.
(pan sizzles)
I'm gonna put that in to cook.
Okay, we're gonna start
on a little Thousand Island dressing.
So we've got some chopped pickles,
chopped red onion or diced red onion,
some ketchup,
and a little bit of low fat mayonnaise.
Mix that together.
Boom.
Little salt.
Little pepper.
And you notice that I add
salt and pepper to everything.
I bring out the flavors
by layering the flavors.
So, I've got the one cake I just put in.
I had two in earlier
that are almost ready.
I've got some jalapenos here.
If you want to
you could add it to the
Thousand Island dressing
to kick it up a little bit.
You don't have to.
Maybe we should.
Just a tad.
Little bit in there,
just to give us some heat.
So I'm gonna show you
how to make this twice.
One with a bun as a burger type
and one without if you have gluten issues.
So I'm gonna take a little
bit of Thousand Island
onto our bun.
I'm gonna take beautiful crisp lettuce.
Tomato.
Lettuce.
Turn that off.
Turn that over.
Oh, look at that golden brown.
Take this one out.
On to the burger itself.
That's basically a
beautiful vegetarian dish.
Now, if I didn't want the bun as I said,
I would just take the dressing.
Take some more lettuce.
Break the back of it or the vein of it.
Form a little cup.
Take my tomato in the middle.
And my cake right on top of that.
So there you have it.
Two different ways for
a vegetarian burger.
One with a bun.
One without for those that
have gluten intolerances.
Simple, easy, fresh food coming to you.
I'm Chef Robert Irvine
from BodyBuilding.com.
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healthy, and fun recipes.
