Butternut Squash & Butter Bean Burgers

These tasty butternut squash and butter bean burgers are a great meat-free BBQ alternative. Packed full of delicious flavour the recipe is suitable for both vegans and coeliacs and uses simple, wholesome ingredients without compromising on great taste.
You can use any of our new Savoury Sprinkles  (whichever flavour takes your fancy) for this recipe. We particularly love the Spicy Peri Peri in this.

Makes approx 4 burgers.

Ingredients:

1 small, ripe butternut squash
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 tbsp fresh thyme leaves
200g cooked butter beans
2 tbsp of gluten free (or ordinary) flour
5 tbsp of Savoury Munchy Seeds, plus extra for coating
sea salt and black pepper to season
rapeseed oil

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Slice the butternut squash in half and scrape out the seeds. Place them on a baking sheet, drizzle with a small amount of rapeseed oil, put 1 unpeeled garlic clove in the centre of each half (2 cloves of garlic in total) and roast in the oven until completely cooked, approximately 30 minutes.

Set aside to cool. When they are cold enough to handle, peel and weigh out 200g of roasted butternut squash. Any leftovers make a great addition to salads or a healthy snack.

Put the 200g of butternut squash, butter beans, a tablespoon of rapeseed oil, thyme leaves, 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt and a good grinding of freshly cracked black pepper in a blender. Squeeze the garlic out of the skins and add this to the mix too. Blend until mostly smooth.

Stir in the flour and Savoury Munchy Seeds. Turn the oven up to 200 degrees C. Take a large tablespoon of the mixture and squash it into the shape of a burger. Sprinkle some extra seeds on each side of the burger and press down so the seeds stick to the outside. Repeat until all of the mixture is gone.

Put the burgers on a baking tray, drizzle with rapeseed oil and bake for 30 minutes. Serve with condiments and veggies of your choice. We used red onion, chargrilled red pepper, lettuce and gherkins.

Recipe and photography credit to the The Wholefood Warrior.
https://wholefoodwarrior.co.uk/

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