Vegetarian Bean Burger by Sorted Food

capture_04122014_150544The guys at Sorted Food create a burger with butter beans, mushrooms, onions, lemon zest, thyme and garlic.  After they saute the onions, mushrooms and garlic, they add it in a blender with butter beans and bread crumbs, fresh parsley, an egg and lemon zest.  They form their burgers, coat them with flour, and fry them in a little oil.  They top their burgers with a little blue cheese and serve them in a pita bread pocket with mayonnaise and a small side salad.  These vegetarian burgers can easily be made vegan by replacing the egg with a commercial egg replacer or a chia seed or flax seed mixture.  The blue cheese can be replaced with vegan cheese, and the mayonnaise can be vegan mayonnaise.  These are delicious and healthy burgers made without the expense and harmful health effects of animal products.   Enjoy.

Data from a July 25, 2014 article on the NY Times website –

Sorted Food is an on-line cooking show on youtube.  Created in 2010 by 4 British school friends, Jamie Spafford, Barry Taylor, Mike Huttlestone, and Ben Ebbrell, Sorted Food has quickly attracted more than 865,000 (by November 2014, over 1,000,000) subscribers.

“… on visits home, they would meet in a pub. And the talk often turned to food.

“At university,” Mr. Spafford said, “we were all eating complete rubbish. With one exception: Ben.”

So Mr. Ebbrell, who at the time was studying culinary arts management at University College Birmingham, started sharing cheap and easy recipes with his friends using the backs of beer coasters.

Those recipes grew into a self-published cookbook, and, in May 2010, the four started the Sorted Food YouTube channel. “It became an obvious way of sharing the recipes with more of our friends because it’s a platform we kind of naturally had in our pockets anyway,” Mr. Ebbrell said.

Then the videos started gaining traction beyond their circle of friends. “It began by ‘Wow, we’ve got a hundred views,’  ” Mr. Ebbrell recalled. “But we’ve only got 40 friends on Facebook, so who are these other 60 people?”

That following quickly grew.”

You can learn more on the NY Times article.

 

You can learn more about Sorted Food activities, and enjoy their recipes on their website, sortedfood.com.

Their youtube channel is here.

Their cookbooks are available on Amazon.