MasoorBurgers

Masoor/ Pink lentil Burgers

Burgers are fancy fast food and everybody’s favourite.  A burger is a full meal by itself.

It is a bun sliced and sandwiched with a patty.  Normally the patty is made with ground meat.  We will replace the meat with masoor dal.

Ingredients:

3 Buns

3 Patties: the meat is replaced by masoor dal

Salad vegetables: such as tomatoes, cucumber, cabbage, lettuce, capsicum, onion and so on.

Condiments: salt, ketchup, mustard, butter whatever is available at home to flavour your burger.

Ingredients for the patties:

120 gm masoor, coarsely ground paste

1 Tbsp of finely chopped onion

1 Tbsp of finely chopped capsicum/parsley/ coriander leaves

2 Tbsp of fresh bread crumbs

Oil for deep frying

Salt to taste

Method:

  1. Wash and soak masoor dal for about 6 hours.2.
  2. Drain water completely from the dal and grind coarsely.
  1. Mix all the ingredients except the bread crumbs. Use the bread crumbs little at a time if too moist.  It is mainly for binding the patties.
  2. Make loosely the patties to the size of the buns to be used for burger.
  3. Refrigerate them for about 5 minutes.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the patties over low heat on both sides until golden brown.

  1. Split the bun open and butter the inner sides of the bun.
  2. Place the buttered sides of the bun on a hot pan for extra crispness and flavour.
  3. Assemble the burgers with the patties, vegetables and the condiments in layers as you wish.

It is yummy, you will try it again !

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