Wednesday 12 September 2012

Peanut Burgers


Ingredients:

6 tb Butter or vegan margarine
1  Onion; peeled and chopped
1 Celery stalk; finely chopped
1 ts Dried herbes de provence
1 tb Whole-wheat flour
1/2 c  Light vegetable stock; (gene
1 tb Soy sauce
1 ts Yeast extract
1 c  Roasted; unsalted peanutsMeasure); fairly finely grou
1/2 c  Cashew nuts (scant); fairly
2/3 c  Fresh breadcrumbs; whole-wh Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Dried breadcrumbs; (for coat Oil; for shallow frying 
to garnish Lettuce leaves Tomato slices 
Cucumber slices

Methods:



Melt the butter or vegan margarine in a large saucepan and saute the onionand celery for 10 minutes.  Stir in the herbs and flour and cook for a further 1-2 minutes. Add the stock and stir until thickened, then add the ssauce, yeast extract, nuts, breadcrumbs and salt and pepper. Leave the mixture to cool, then form into 6 flat burgers about 1/2" thick, and coatwith dried breadcrumbs. Saute the burgers in a very little oil - the frying pan should be "greased" rather than oily - for about 3 minutes on each sideuntil browned and crisp.  Drain on paper towels.  Garnish and serve.

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