Lentil Burgers Recipe on Kosher.com from Whisk

Mevater

Thu, Dec 20 2018, 12:58 pm

The lentils dont get soaked or cooked before being fried? Only "Mash lentils or blend in a food processor."?

https://www.kosher.com/recipe/.....s-422

Main ingredients

2 cups ground walnuts

2 cups Gefen Organic Lentils

4 eggs

1 small medium onion, minced

1 tablespoon oil, butter, or shmaltz

1 teaspoon garlic powder or 2 cubes Gefen Frozen Garlic

3 teaspoons salt

3 teaspoons prepared mustard

1/2 cup Yehuda Matzo Meal, flour, or bread crumbs (or as needed)

Prepare the Burgers

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a baking sheet.

Mash lentils or blend in a food processor. (If you’re trying to fool people into thinking this is meat, the lentil pieces left after mashing will be a dead giveaway, so use the food processor method.)

Heat oil/butter/shmaltz in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the onions and cook until golden. Combine with lentils.

Add ground walnuts, eggs, garlic powder, salt, and mustard. Mix well.

Add matzah meal, flour, or breadcrumbs to bind the mixture so that you are able to shape into burgers that don’t fall apart. Adjust amounts as needed.

Using your hands, shape the mixture into burgers. Line on prepared baking sheet.

Bake for ten to twenty minutes, depending on size of burgers, until patties are solid on top.

Serve warm on buns with the usual hamburger toppings, such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, lettuce, raw onion slices, or tomatoes.

penguin

Thu, Dec 20 2018, 1:42 pm

I was just thinking about this last night, as I used a bag of the pre-cooked lentils in a vegetable soup.

However, what I was thinking was, where can I find a great recipe that I got from a magazine about 35 years ago? It had lentils, brown rice, and I think chopped celery, sunflower seeds. Maybe there were walnuts. Probably wheat germ, but I'm not sure sure. Of course if I remembered everything I could probably make them! (I used to make lentils and brown rice, serve w fried onions & yogurt, and use the leftovers for these burgers.)

These lentil burgers were so good DH asked me why we are eating them on the milchig dishes (back in the day when I actually served on real dishes!)

I tried writing to the various women's magazines that were around at the time, but none of them could help me.

Mevater

Thu, Dec 20 2018, 4:56 pm

Sebastian wrote:

It says to use Gefen Organic Lentils

Here's a link: https://worldwidewut.com/produ.....D_BwE

I dont think whoever posted the recipe should assume that everyone knows that THESE Organic lentils happen to be precooked.

Anyhow, Im sure pre-cooked lentils cost much more than raw lentils. Cooking lentils doesnt take that long.