Sweet Potato Falafel Burgers
I love sweet potatoes and if you regularly read or use my recipes you’ll know this. I love them in soup, stew, chilli, curry or as a side in mash, chips or baked. They probably make up about 25% of all my carbohydrate consumption.
So imagine my excitement then when I saw the amazing guys at The Happy Pear had a brilliant recipe I felt I could tweak to suit my taste in their cracking cookbook for falafel burgers made with sweet potatoes.
So below is my vegan Sweet Potato Falafel Burger recipe – I think they are the nicest I’ve ever made and I hope you do too.
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 leek
- 6 spring onions
- 400g chickpeas
- 1 large onion
- 1 medium chilli
- 2tbsp of soy sauce and squeeze half lemon
- Spices/herbs - 2tsp cumin, coriander, paprika, 1tsp chilli powder, salt & pepper
- Enough sesame seeds to cover the burgers
How to
- Peel and chop the sweet potato into small squares and roast in the oven at medium heat for 20-25 minutes.
- While the potatoes are roasting fry the onion, garlic, chilli, leeks for a few minutes to cook through.
- Remove the potatoes from the oven but keep the oven on, and take the onions garlic etc. off the heat.
- Add all the ingredients except the sesame seeds to a food processor and blitz it all together to form a thick base.
- Form into similar sized burgers {should make about 6} and roll in the sesame seeds
- Return to the oven for a further 25 minutes and remove and enjoy.
Useful tip – if you find the mixture is too wet or too sticky to form burgers with, add a little gram flour, form into burgers, allow to cool and then keep in the fridge for a period before cooking in the oven later.
