Green monster burgers

Green monster burgers with peas, broccoli, spinach, garlic, oatmeal, nuts, pesto, onion, lemon juice, basil and herbs

Ingredients
300 g peas
½ broccoli (with stalk)
Handful of kale or spinach
2 garlic cloves (crushed)
150 g (gluten-free) oatmeal
1 ½ celery stem
2 handfuls of cashew nuts
2 handfuls of walnuts
2 tbsp of pine nuts
5 ½ full teaspoons pesto
1 (large) red onion
1 tsp lemon juice
2 handfuls of basil
2 handfuls of chickpeas flour
Olive oil
Flavor with salt, pepper, thyme, oregano and parsley

Instructions
Chop the broccoli including the stalk into small pieces and boil for short time together with the peas. Put the oatmeal, cashew nuts, walnuts and kale or spinach into a bowl. Cut the celery and press the garlic gloves and put them in the bowl too. Chop the red onion and put this aside for a second. Mix the ingredients in the bowl till you have a nice, smooth mixture. Add the basil, pesto, lemon, salt, pepper and other herbs to the mixture and stir again. Finally add the pieces of red onion. Don’t use the mixer but stir by hand. Leave the mixture in the fridge for at least one hour.

  

After one hour, toast the pine nuts in a pan till slightly brown and add them to the mixture and give it a good stir. Now you are ready to make small burgers with your hands and cover them with the chickpeas flour.

Heat around two centimeters depth of sunflower oil in a wok and fry the burgers till brown and crispy. Let them rest on a piece of kitchen towel to absorb the oil. Keep warm in aluminum foil or in a pre-heated oven.

Recipe & photos by Anne