Veggie bean burgers for kids
Shop-bought veggie burgers are often deep-fried and quite expensive. You can make your own versions at home which can be frozen and then oven-cooked from frozen as needed. They can all be served with dips or as a filling for pittas, flatbreads or wraps. It is good to add a vegetable of some kind- mashed squash, carrot or sweet potato work really well- you can mash these from boiled or roasted vegetables.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 9 of 10 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Sunflower | 1 oz (28g) hulled | 165 |
| Chickpea | 1/2 cup canned (120g) drained | 134 |
| Vegetable | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Sesame | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Tahini | 1 tbsp (15g) | 89 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Cumin | 1 tsp ground (2.1g) | 8 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Coriander | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1 x 400g/14oz tin chickpeas
- 300g/10½oz cooked, mashed vegetables such as carrotsquashpotatosweet potatoparsnip
- 1 garlicgarlic
- 1 tbsp sunflower, vegetable or olive oil
- squeeze lemon juice
- pinch ground cumin, coriander
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 4 tbsp sesame seeds