Comments on: Beet Burgers (Didi Emmons)

By: veganboricua

veganboricua — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:46:07 +0000

I tried this recipe, and it rocks! The beets that I found didn’t have the greens, so I just didn’t add any greens. I didn’t have wheat germ so I substituted it with flour. I added cumin right when I added salt and pepper. Mine didn’t fall apart, and were absolutely divine! I got 10 burgers out of this recipe.

Thank you very much for posting it!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:43:39 +0000

We made these the other night and they were super yummy! Our millet got gummy on accident (I added a bit too much water I think), but I think that was a good thing in the end because our burgers held together really well! I’m going to make it gummy again on purpose next time. I think the cast iron pan, as suggested, helped a lot too. We also topped them with avocado and tomatoes and that was fabulous.

By: Aces

Aces — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:58:51 +0000

These are great!! I got 15 burgers out of this recipe! I had problems with keeping them together like others have, but I don’t really mind. It’s the taste that matters, and they are delicious I’ll play with it next time to get the consistency right, but it will take me awhile to get through all these burgers! The hot sauce is a yummy addition. I love this show!!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:09:19 +0000

These are really good. The greens are not roasted, just washed and processed raw. Enjoy!

By: mamahen12

mamahen12 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:25:46 +0000

These sound s-o-o-o-o-o-o delishous !

Are you baking the beet greens w/the other veggies ?

Thanks.

Mamahen12

By: OldRelayer

OldRelayer — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:23:30 +0000

Thanks for the help. Actually I landed up using a tool I don’t think I mentioned I had a small chopper, kind of looks like a Food Processor but much smaller. Where it wasn’t recommended making more than a cup or so at a time, I thought it wouldn’t be any worse, at first I thought it would be too small but 4 or 5 batches did the trick. I did have the same problem that most people had, it didn’t stay together very well. It seemed like it was going to, go it cooked on one side, cold it held, but when I flipped them, scrambled burger for more than half of it. However, it still was excellent and will try a couple of the suggestions to keep it together.

I didn’t use an spices, which is normal for my first time cooking something, once it is made I determine what it might need. It didn’t need anything, I used Thai Kitchen “Sweet Chile Sauce” which isn’t properly named, it is sweet but it is also hot and went great with the beet burger. I rolled it around the edges of the dish and used it like a dip(more or less).

It made exactly 8, so I have 6 in the freezer for other meals, which is nice because it is a bit of work and being able to spread that out over a few meals makes it really worth it. We had it with a Caesar Salad which I have become very found of now that I have a good recipe for dressing. A nice healthy meal.

Thanks you so much,
Barry

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:02:06 +0000

An interesting dilemma! As you might have guessed a food processor is certainly the tool of choice, however, I think if you were to hand chop the assorted vegetables to a manageable size, then pulse them in a deep bowl with the immersion blender you should be alright. The vegetables are already roasted and softened and should be pretty easy to break down. I would do this in smaller batches like one to two cups at a time. The millet does not have to be processed just mixed in. This is a pretty forgiving recipe since it is a veggie burger and also because you do want to maintain some texture. Let me know how and if this works!

By: OldRelayer

OldRelayer — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:59:23 +0000

I saw your show for the first time this week and found it very interesting. For a couple of reasons I am limited to the power tools I can have for cooking and something as big as a Food Processor is out. Most of the time I can get by with limited hand tools, but these veggie burgers, which I would like to make, look like it would be difficult without a food processor. I do have 3 tools, regular hand mixer(Walmart on Black Friday $4), a blender but not a good one and an immersion blender that I haven’t used yet. The blender I know wont work, it needs a fair amount of liquid to do anything. But I am thinking maybe there would be a way of using the immersion blender. Advice needed, thanks.

By: Chef

Chef — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:30:09 +0000

That happy salt thing can be a problem Sounds like you really used your intuition which is great, it’s really what cooking from the heart is all about. Thank you so much for your kind remarks, I appreciate it. Please keep in touch. Toni

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:06:19 +0000

I halved the recipe, but added too much salt (I got a little too Toni happy with the salt so I added another beet, slice of toast, wheat germ, oh, and I used barley bc I didn’t have any millet. It turned out GREAT! Toni, your recipes have inspired me! Do you come up with everything yourself? You’re really talented.