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Sweet Potato Burgers

 These sweet potato burgers have both meaty texture and strong flavor! High in protein, macrobiotic and vegan, these little ones will surely become your favorite quick snack too! 

I am crazy about veggie burgers and veggie patties! As you probably already noticed by now, I have tons of veggie patties, creamy soups and hummus recipes on my blog. These three are my food weaknesses! 😀

I always try to come up with interesting and original ingredient combinations, and turn a boring meal into a real senses surprise! I hope I succeeded so far and you liked all my veggie patties recipes.

By the way, have you read my Veggie Burger Guide yet? Well, if not, you should! 😀 The guide will surely help you create the best burger patties anytime, plus you will learn how to make your own experiments yourself!

You can share this sweet potato veggie burgers with your family or friends.

Gluten-Free Lentil Sweet Potato Burgers

I made these sweet potato burgers about two weeks ago. I also made some black beans and lovage patties which were absolutely amazing! Unfortunately, I was too hungry and didn’t take any photos of them.

I rarely cook with sweet potatoes, maybe because they are pretty expensive here or I’m just not that used to using them in recipes. Anyway, I saw some sweet potatoes at a decent price and got the idea to use them in a veggie burger patties recipe. Glad I did! Sweet potatoes have a subtle sweetness I love, plus they have a great color! You’ll get some cute, dark orange patties with a great texture. Also, lentils were the base ingredient in this recipe.

Sweet potatoes have a subtle sweetness I love, plus they have a great color! You’ll get some cute, dark orange patties with a great texture. As all my veggie patties recipes, these sweet potato burgers are super-easy to make and you won’t spend too much time in the kitchen either. Here’s how to make them:

Gluten-Free Lentil Sweet Potato Burgers

Yield: 10+ burgers

Sweet Potato Burgers

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These sweet potato burgers have both meaty texture and strong flavor! High in protein, macrobiotic and vegan, these little ones will surely become your favorite quick snack too!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 200g (1 cup) red lentils
  • 1 sweet potato, grated
  • 1 bunch parsley, chopped
  • 1 medium onion, diced
  • 2 Tbsps ground flax + 3 Tbsps water, or one large egg
  • 4 Tbsps nutritional yeast
  • GF bread crumbs or gluten-free flour– about 80g (2/3 cup), more or less (or regular ones if you're not gluten intolerant)
  • sea salt and ground pepper, to taste

Instructions

  1. Mix the ground flax and water in a small bowl and set aside for 5 minutes to thicken.
  2. Add lentils in a pot and cover them with water. From the moment they start boiling, let them boil for about 15 minutes and then remove from heat.
  3. Strain the lentils very well and put them in a large bowl. Start mashing them a little, using a fork, or use your food processor to turn them into a paste.
  4. Add egg/flax egg, inactive yeast flakes, chopped onion, parsley, grated sweet potato, breadcrumbs/flour, sea salt and pepper into the bowl.
  5. Using a fork, or your hands, start mixing the composition. It has to be sticky and easy to form. If it’s not it means that you didn’t strain the lentils very well and the composition is too wet. No problem, just add more breadcrumbs/flour until it has a sticky dough-like consistency.
  6. Spray a non-stick pan with some oil. Not too much. Put each patty on the frying pan and let it fry about 2 minutes on each side.
  7. Make the burgers with any other ingredients you want, such as GF buns, tomato slices, salad leaves and more!

Nutrition Information

Yield

10

Amount Per Serving Calories 198Total Fat 3.3gCarbohydrates 31.8gProtein 10g

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Mira

Thursday 6th of October 2016

I have some leftover lentils, I'm going to try this for dinner ?? thanks for the recipe

Ruxandra

Saturday 8th of October 2016

You're welcome, Mira! :D

Pip

Sunday 22nd of May 2016

I enjoyed this piece and am off to make your burgers

Ruxandra

Saturday 28th of May 2016

Yay! Let me know how they turned out! :)

Pip

Sunday 22nd of May 2016

I enjoyed this piece and am off to make your burgers

Ruxandra

Saturday 28th of May 2016

Thanks! How did they turn out? :D

mala

Tuesday 29th of March 2016

can these be baked in the oven? do they even get warm frying for only 2 minutes/side?

Ruxandra

Wednesday 6th of April 2016

Sure! I heat the oil first and don't make them too thick. It's enough to make their sides crisp. You can increase the time to 3-4 minutes on each side maybe. :)

Katie jed

Wednesday 15th of July 2015

This recipe is great and a change to my usual vegatarian food. One question, can you use normal yeast (like allinsons yeast, used in breads) or do you need nutrional yeast? I'm not bothered about healthiness and I'm only vegatarian with no other dietary needs. Thank you.

Ruxandra

Tuesday 21st of July 2015

Nope! Normal yeast is a totally different thing! Only use inactive dry yeast flakes = nutritional yeast. You can skip it if you want and add some more flour instead.

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