Simple and Yummy Textured Soy Protein Burgers
3/4 cup boiling water
3/4 cup textured soy protein granules
2 teaspoons arrowroot
1/4 cup oats
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
3 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
oil, as needed for frying
4 sandwich buns, warmed
1. Mix boiling water into textured soy protein granules and let sit for 15 minutes. In another bowl, mix together arrowroot, oats, onion powder, garlic powder, flour, soy sauce, ketchup, salt, and pepper.
2. Once textured soy protein is rehydrated, add oat mixture to textured soy protein and mix well. Cover and place in the fridge for 15 minutes to allow textured soy protein to firm up.
3. Remove textured soy protein and divide into quarters. With your hands, roll each quarter into a ball and flatten into a patty shape.
4. Lightly brush each side with oil and add some oil to a large skillet. Heat oil until a drop of water sizzles, then add patties to the skillet. Cook 3-4 minutes on each side.
Assemble the sandwich with lettuce, pickles, and tomatoes. Enjoy!
SO HOW'D IT GO?
I like these. My hubby likes these. My kids like these. 3 for 3 - WIN!
However, the kids found the patties too spicy because of the black pepper, so I just added a few shakes of pepper instead.
Next time I make these it's going to be a quadruple batch and I'll freeze the leftovers!
I made a batch to have for supper, but wanted to sample first to see if I needed to adjust anything before serving it to hubby, so I made one patty for my lunch. I made a few tiny adjustments to suit my own tastes (instead of 3 Tbs flour, I used 2 Tbs flour and 1 Tbs ground flax seed; cut up one green onion and one clove garlic instead of using the powders; used cornstarch since I don't have arrowroot; and subbed BBQ sauce for ketchup; and I think my soy sauce is low sodium). The patty formed really well and held together while cooking (I pan fried it). The texture was pretty awesome and it tasted good, too (I ate it plain for lunch with veggies on the side). This evening, I'll cook it up as burgers, which will probably improve more so with all the fixings with it. Quick and easy all around. The hardest part was mixing the TVP with the oat mixture because I wanted to be sure it was totally incorporated. Yeah, so that wasn't even that hard.
Really great recipe! I will be using this often. ;)b
finally tried these today for lunch. I had some bad experience with TVP as a sub for ground beef so I was a bit concerned but I should not have been. I did add some small diced green pepper and grated carrot as some other reviews suggested. I got too much carrot in them but I will know for next time. I also did not have arrow root powder so I used corn starch as suggested. Otherwise, no problems at all. They formed patties really well and tasted great. This is going in the rotation of vegan foods for my omni family.
These were good and very easy, the texture and appearance was indeed meaty, and the taste was very satisfactory - and with the original recipe being so simple, I bet it'll be easy enough to experiment with these!
I got 6 burgers and baked them, 10 mins on one side, 10 on the other as shelloid said at 350, however I think this was slightly too long for my oven as they were a tad rubbery, but that's probably my fault!
Anyway, simple cheap and good recipe! Thanks!! ;)b
(If anyones interested, my burgers worked out at 102 calories each, I followed the recipe exactly but as stated above got 6 and not 4!)
I have to say, store bought 'meatish' burgers are really expensive and vegan one's are fairly rare, but these are amazing! They really fill a hole for a veggie burger that I've been lacking since being vegan. So easy, I make the mix up before I go to work in the morning and its all ready in about 10 minutes when I get home! Fantastic!
these were tasty! normally we make bean burgers this was a nice change
The tvp scare me lol.It smell so bad when i added the water but the smell went away when i added the other ingrediants.My tvp is brand new I just got it so it isnt old lol.I hope that the smell wont stop me from buying it in the future :0.I can get turn off of food very easily.
Hi ,this is the first time using TVP and I think it is cool that there are oats in this :).I'm only use to eating oats in desserts so I didnt know that it would turn out great.Recipe is awesome but my burgers were not that great but edible because I use cumin.The cumin powder over powers all the seasonings.Next time i wont use the cumin and I know that the burger would be perfect.I made burgers with cumin before and i got the same problem so i should of know better lol.I bake the burgers in the oven with no oil on tin foil which was bad lol because only the top part was crunchy while the bottom part was soft and moist like the inside.Next time ill bake them on a pan with a dime of oil.I didnt had to squezze out water because it was abosbed in my tvp quickly and the moistness of the tvp help kept the burgers together so 2 tbs flour was enough.I use a spoon to scoop it out onto the tin foil and i flatten it.Stuff i use is:
1 cup tvp
1/4 cup oats
a half of 1 fresh onion
1 cup hot\warm water from tap
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1.5 tablespoon ketchup
1\2 tsp cumin [ yuck wont use this for burgers again.I rather only use it for stuff like curry,doubles
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1\2 tsp curry
1\2 tsp chili
1\2 parprika
Fantastic recipe! I made these using fresh onion and added finely diced mushroom..I pan fried using a oil substitute,then oven baked.
:)>>> Love them!!
ohmygosh delicious. And a life-saver: I was trying to make veggie burgers late one night to take to school the next day and it ended up being a disgusting and crumbly disaster :'(
This recipe totally saved the day as a quick, easy, and SUPER tasty replacement recipe ;D
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