Sweet Potato Quinoa Burgers
These sweet potato quinoa burgers are bursting full of flavour. Packed full of goodness, these are a new lunch favourite.
Ingredients
- 10.5 oz sweet potato about 1 medium sized
- ¼ cup cooked quinoa
- ¼ cup oats blitzed into a flour
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 2 oz feta
- 1 teaspoon cumin ground
- 1 teaspoon cilantro ground
- 3 teaspoon cilantro fresh, finely chopped
- ½ tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Make oat flour - blitz ¼ cup of rolled oats in a high powered blender until oats resemble a fine flour
- Preheat oven to 400F/200C
- Dice sweet potato into 2 cm cubes
- Toss sweet potato in olive oil, salt and pepper and lay out on a baking tray
- Bake sweet potato for about 20 minutes, or until potato is tender and starting to get crispy
- Place baked sweet potato in a large bowl and mash,
- Add quinoa, oat flour, egg, cumin, ground cilantro, cilantro and feta and mix until well combined. Season well with salt and pepper.
- Take about 1 large tablespoon of mixture and shape into round patties
- Heat olive oil in a large pan and fry burgers about 2-3 minutes on each side until golden brown, flip and repeat process.
- Serve with salads or in a wrap.
Notes
* Cooking time may vary. The cooking time of 30 minutes includes roasting the sweet potato, and the time taken to cook the burgers on a fry pan. If using the oven, cooking times goes up to 45 minutes