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BEET BURGERS

4 large beets
2 medium onions, whole

Cook until soft.  When onions are ready, remove them from the beet
pot and place in a blender, along with:


5 cloves garlic
1 T. cumin
1 T. coriander
black pepper and salt, or possibly cayenne pepper, to taste

If possible, blend without adding liquid.  If not, add as little
as possible. drain and mash the beets (to the consistency of mashed
potatoes, I bet it would be nice to have a food processor for this
step) and then add the stuff from the blender.


To the beet mixture, slowly add while stirring:

2 T. guar gum
gram (chickpea) flour, sifted

Add gram flour until you have a stiff (but probably still somewhat
sticky) paste.  Sift out some gram flour onto your work surface.
Pick up balls of the veg burger mixture and roll in the flour, then
pat them to about 3/4" thick.

I cooked them for about 5 minutes on a side, in a frying pan sprayed
lightly with PAM, but I suspect they could be baked as well.

Printable version: beet-burgers.txt.