(Not Your Typical) Burgers and Fries

Hi, friends!  Hope your week is flying by!  Mine is going pretty good.  With my new job, I have hours that vary.  I thought I would love starting the day

off early and getting off when the sun is still up.  I find those days are the most difficult.  I was happy my schedule got switched today and I started at 9.  The funny thing is that I don’t take all that long too get ready it’s just that I take about an hour to dilly dally.  Most of the dilly dallying takes place on the computer.  Reading and commenting blogs, editing pictures, and reading comments on my blogs.  I love sitting outside with my hot cup of coffee with my computer in hand.  The simple things that make us happy. 

The nice thing about this job is that lunch is provided, giving me more time to dilly dally.  But there is no doubt in my mind had I needed leftovers for lunch today, I would have eagerly packed up last night’s dinner. 

I modified this recipe for BBQ chickpea burgers quite a bit, eliminating about 5 ingredients and adding in some of my own.  This original recipe looked amazing, but I always try to use as many ingredients I have around all the house as possible.  The addition of egg in these burgers makes them now a vegetarian option, not vegan.  Swanky boyfriend took a back seat and acted as my sous chef for the night.  He says I scare him with my use of a knife. 

I am guessing the combo of egg, bbq sauce, breadcrumbs, and flax but I didn’t have any problems with

these staying together like some veggie burgers I’ve made in the past.

BBQ Chickpea Burgers (adapted from Oh She Glows)

Serves 4 large or 6 small burgers

Ingredients:

• 1 can chickpeas, rinsed
• 3 large garlic cloves, minced
• 1  diced red pepper
• 1 jalapeno, seeded and diced
• 1/2 diced onion
• 1 small carrot, grated
• 3 tbsp BBQ sauce
• 1/4 cup breadcrumbs, or more as needed
• 1 tbsp ground flax
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

Directions:

Drain and rinse chickpeas.  Chop, grate, and assemble all ingredients and all to a large bowl.

Mash ingredients or use a food processor to combine. 

With hands, make a burger patty.  Set aside patties.

Add oil to pan on medium heat.  Add burgers to pan, cooking on each side about 2-3 minutes or until browned.  *Note-feel free to bake burgers as well. 

This burgers had a slight kick to ‘em!!!  I loved that!

I decided not to eat this with a bun because all the ingredients in the burger seemed super filling.  But, the addition of sweet potato fries seemed the perfect thing to round out the meal. 

Simple Sweet Potato Fries

(serves 4)

Ingredients:

• 2 sweet potato fries, sliced
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.  Toss sweet potato slices with garlic, olive oil, and salt.  Tossing all ingredients in a Ziploc bag works great!

On pan (or pizza stone in our case) lay sweet potato slices and bake in oven for about 45 minutes, being sure to turn half way. 

Once slightly crisped, remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. 

Enjoy!

Gotta love a good burger and fries!

I can’t say enough how much I loved this combination.  This is a great burger for even those meat eaters out there. 

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