These nut patties were very tasty a well as being nutritious, and the basil sauce was really great. We’ll e enjoying the rest sauce as a salad dressing tomorrow night.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
For the basil sauce
- 1 Tbs. olive oil
- 1 shallot, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tsp. mustard
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 1/4 cup soy cream or plain soy yogurt
- 6 Tbs. fresh basil, minced
- salt and pepper to taste
for the nut burgers:
- 1 Tbs. olive oil
- 1 red onion, minced
- 250 grams mixed nuts (unsalted would be est)
- 150 grams bread crumbs
- 2 Tbs. parsley
- 2 Tbs. tomato puree
- 1 Tbs. miso (if using unsalted nuts)
- 2 egg replacement equivalents
- 4-6 Tbs. water
Directions:
to make the sauce:
- Heat the oil in a small frying pan.
- Add the shallot, and sauté until glassy.
- Place all the ingredients in a blender and wiz to a smooth consistency.
to make the nut burgers:
- Using a food processor, chop the nuts to a coarse consistency.
- Put the nuts in a bowl.
- Using the food processor, make the bread crumbs add the parsley and chop to a fine consistency.
- Add the bread crumbs and parsley to the nuts.
- Heat the oil in a small pan and sauté the red onion.
- Add the onion to the nut mixture.
- Add the tomato puree, the egg substitute and the miso if the nuts are not salted.
- Using a fork, mix the ingredients well, adding a bit of water at a time to form a sold mass.
- Let the mixture sit for 10 minutes - 1/2 hour.
- Form small patties.
- Either fry the patties in a frying pan with a bit of oil, or bake in the oven until lightly brown and crispy.
Notes:
The miso is not necessary, but nice and also healthy. One can use salt, or if the nuts are salted, then not necessary at all.
on Nov 29th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Thanks for recipe
on Nov 29th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I am going to try this over the weekend, it looks so mouth watering. Thank you again!!!
PS: Chris, I’ll let you know how it turns out lol.
on Nov 29th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
My boyfriend would be kill me, but I’d love it. Yummy. I’ll make it for his sister.
on Nov 30th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
This looks absolutely fabulous!
on Dec 3rd, 2007 at 12:54 am
This looks delicious! I’ll have to try it.
Paula
on Dec 3rd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I tried this, and maybe i used the wrong nuts, but I wasn’t incredibly crazy about the taste and the burgers tended to crumble in the frying pan.
Maybe less nuts and a little chick pea would’ve helped?
on Dec 3rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Oh Liz,
I’m sorry…I don’t know what happened…ours were great and stayed stuck together…ya, maybe less nuts and more chick peas..or chick pea flour. The tomato paste and bread crumbs really helped to keep mine together..I don’t know what happened to yours…perhaps try again and change the amounts…again, I’m sorry to hear about your problems…
on Dec 18th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
I don’t have a way of measuring in “grams.” Is there a cup measurement for the nuts and bread crumbs?
on Jul 18th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Thanks for you very unique recipe. I might try it myself.