What Exactly Are Veggie-Burgers Made From?!
Answers: What is it?
To make a mushroom veggie burger:
Ingredients
1 large flat mushroom
1 bap
For the filling:
a handful lettuce, shredded
1 tomato, sliced
1 mushroom, sliced
Method
1. Lightly brush a large flat mushroom with oil and grill or barbecue for 3 minutes. Turn over and grill for a further 2 minutes.
2. Spread some mustard over one half of a bap.
3. Fill with shredded lettuce, sliced tomato and mushroom.
4. Top with remaining half bap.
Or tofu + veg burger:
Ingredients
100g/3?oz broccoli cut into small florets
15g/?oz butter
200g/7oz button mushrooms, roughly chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 X 285g/10oz packet firm tofu
100g/3?oz unsalted cashew nuts
3 spring onions, finely sliced
1 medium carrot, finely grated
100g/3?oz fresh breadcrumbs
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp honey
salt and pepper
flour for coating
vegetable oil for frying
Method
1. Blanch the broccoli in lightly salted boiling water for 2 minutes until tender.
2. Melt the butter in a frying pan and saute the mushroom and garlic for 3 to 4 minutes until softened.
3. Transfer to a food processor with the broccoli and all of the other ingredients. Process until mixed together and season with salt and pepper.
4. Form into eight burgers, coat in flour and sauté for 2 to 3 minutes on each side over a medium heat until golden.
Soy or whey protein if you are talking about the kind you get in the supermarket
Vegan: The main ingredients that approximate the protein of a meat burger are some form of soy or the gluten part of the wheat kernel. They are very good source of protein, and usually combined in some form to produce a "complete" protein". The other ingredients vary: mushrooms, veggies, nuts, seeds, seasonings.
Vegetarian: As above, but the main difference in non-vegan burgers is the addition of eggs (usually just the whites), cheese, and other milk derivatives.
depends on which ones your talking about... there are many kinds... but all them have something like whey protien.
heres a recipe: Canned Pumpkin, oatmeal, seasoning salt and soya sauce mix all together and you get a fake meat..( no whey protein in this ) you can use it to make fake burgers, fake meat balls, even a fake meat loaf. see ca.360.yahoo.com/ddherbals
There are several different types, some are soy-based, some are grain-based, some are mushroom-based, etc... Read the ingredients if you want to know "exactly" what a particular veggie burger is made from.
They vary in contents. Some are made up of textured soy or wheat gluten. Some have both. You can make your own out of lentils, bulgur wheat and egg whites( or vegan egg replacer). You can also make one out of tofu, chickpeas, and cashwes. There are a lot of different variations to a veggie burger.
http://www.amyskitchen.com/products/cate...
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/v...
I make mine from :-
chickpeas, sweet corn, lentils, onions, grated carrot , bread crumbs, cumin, salt pepper and egg to bind it together. Very simple, just mix together, or put in a blender.
The sweepings of plant crap from a factory floor and loads and loads of spices to make it taste somewhat like "meat", but rarely succeeds.
Who knows? Something disgusting I'm sure with spices added and a expensive.