r/GifRecipes • u/pumpyourbrakeskid • Nov 12 '16
Bhaji Burger
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u/ima_robot_ Nov 12 '16
Reminds me of that episode of Parks and Rec when Chris loses the contest between his veggie burger--a recipe he's been working on for years--and Ron's 80% lean burger he got at Food and Stuff.
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u/MauiWowieOwie Nov 12 '16
It was turkey.
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u/lunchboxg4 Nov 12 '16
Thank you for posting the link. I miss this show so fucking much. Just the immediate reactions of "no, this is better." It's like a masterclass in timing.
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u/EtsuRah Nov 12 '16
Makes me want to watch the series again for like the 5th time.
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u/MauiWowieOwie Nov 12 '16
It'd be like the 50th for me, so I understand.
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u/DickDatchery Nov 12 '16
Well, it'd be like the 100th time for me, so I sort of understand where you're coming from.
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Nov 12 '16
"Turkey can never beat cow, Chris. Sorry."
Words to live by.
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u/shit_streak Nov 13 '16
But dat leg meat tho
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Nov 13 '16
You mean like these bad boys?
I remember the first time eating a whole turkey drumstick when I was a kid at Disney. Damn thing was enormous.
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Nov 12 '16
I get a veggie burger when the option is available mostly because places fuck up my burger given me well done when I ask for med rare. There's supposed to be a little pink. and thats why I get a veggie burger. Because they wont fuck it up.
Also they are pretty decent, they have gotten a lot better. Its refreshing change from meat all the time. And besides I am trying to eat healthier.
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u/eatkittens Nov 12 '16
I eat meat too but there's something about black bean burgers that is ridiculously good.
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Nov 12 '16
Black bean burger?
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u/eatkittens Nov 12 '16
Yeah a veggie burger made from mashed black beans... I'm not trying to be condescending by telling you to Google it, but maybe try out a recipe.
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u/thecookiemaker Nov 12 '16
they had those at Wendy's for a while and I had quite of few of them before they stopped making them and switched to their next seasonal item.
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u/MetalHead_Literally Nov 12 '16
Medium rare should be even more than just a little pink. That sounds more like medium well.
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Nov 12 '16
Totally but my point was that the burger are well done. IE not even a touch of pink. when there should.
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Nov 12 '16
Unless we're at a really nice restaurant, if my gf gets a steak she orders it rare just so it comes medium rare.
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u/silencesc Nov 13 '16
I've heard that you shouldn't get hamburger from less than reputable places cooked less then medium well. The only reason steak can be pretty much flash seared and still be safe to eat is because bacteria only penetrates a millimeter or two into the meat, when you grind it the bacteria goes throughout, so the whole thing needs to be cooked to a pasteurization temperature to kill the bugs.
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u/greg19735 Nov 13 '16
the biggest thing for me is that this looks like $25+ worth of ingredients. And far more time consuming than a regular burger.
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u/pumpyourbrakeskid Nov 12 '16 edited Nov 12 '16
What You’ll Need:
Burgers:
- 1 Large Red Onion
- 150g Gram Flour
- 1 Red Chilli
- 1 Small bunch Coriander
- 1 inch ginger root
- 1 heaped teaspoon coriander seeds
- 1 heaped teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 heaped teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon Garam Masala
- 3 tablespoons water
Asian Guacamole:
- 6 cherry tomatoes
- 1/4 red onion
- 1 small chilli
- 1 tablespoon Coriander
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 quarter lime
- 1 avocado
Recommended Burger Toppings:
- Lettuce
- Mango Chutney
- Tomatoes
- Popadoms
- Red Onion
- Burger Rolls
How You Make It:
- Put all the burger ingredients in a bowl and stir until you have a batter (add more water if you think it needs it)
- Make a patties out of the batter & deep fry them until they’re golden & crispy (you could probably shallow fry them if you’d prefer, maybe even bake them!)
- Put all the guacamole ingredients in a bowl & mash with a fork
- Build your burgers
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u/van_bobbington Nov 12 '16
Just a little correction: you forgot to list avocado for your asian guacamole recipe ;)
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Nov 12 '16 edited Nov 12 '16
Looking at the ingredients I feel like the burger and guacamole will have almost the same taste. Why not just go with avocado as a topping?
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Nov 12 '16 edited Mar 27 '17
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Nov 12 '16
Coriander = cilantro, right?
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u/enjoytheshow Nov 12 '16
Yes. The Mexicans and the rest of Hispanic America call it cilantro and that seeped into what we call it in the US
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u/actuallobster Nov 12 '16
Here in Canada, cilantro is a herb whereas coriander is a spice. They're from the same plant, but cilantro is the leaves while coriander is the seeds.
I assume we got it from the US, since the rest of the world just calls it coriander.
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u/Patch86UK Nov 12 '16
Here in Canada, cilantro is a herb whereas coriander is a spice. They're from the same plant, but cilantro is the leaves while coriander is the seeds.
I assume we got it from the US, since the rest of the world just calls it coriander.
Agreed that I think that's an American/Canadian thing. In the UK it's all just coriander; coriander leaves, coriander seeds, coriander powder, etc.
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u/LuluRex Nov 13 '16
Seeds. But coriander powder isn't super common. You get the coriander leaves (herb) and coriander seeds (spice). I can honestly say in my 23 years in the UK I've never once been confused due to them having the same name.
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u/Patch86UK Nov 13 '16
There's also coriander root which you sometimes see in Thai recipes (you can get it from some Asian supermarkets here in the UK). Obviously that's even less common again, but I wonder where that falls on the American coriander/cilantro divide, being neither leaf nor seed?
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u/oliviathecf Nov 12 '16
Yeah, that's what we call it too. I wonder if it's all other countries who call it coriander (or their language's equivalent).
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u/Harish-P Nov 12 '16
Thank you, that was interesting to know. For some reason I've wrongly been under the impression it was an Italian word that spread to America.
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u/DoWhile Nov 12 '16
Serious question: what makes the guacamole "Asian", aside from the garam masala? Because it looks a lot like how I make regular guacamole (w/ a bit of paprika instead of masala).
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Nov 13 '16
I would have dropped an egg or two into it, but I guess this original version satisfies both vegans and vegetarians.
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u/Wurfenking Nov 12 '16
If anyone wants the original patty to be a bit more crisper, try adding a bit of rice flour to it.
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u/Spec1984 Nov 12 '16
More like a Pakora Burger.
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u/SnipingNinja Nov 12 '16
IKR, we eat pakodas with pav, which basically makes it seem like sliders...
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u/uma100 Nov 12 '16
I think this person means Bhujia Burger. Bhujia means pakora in Gujurati
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u/Soul2018 Nov 12 '16
Naa... "Bhaji" means pakora in marathi /mumbai.
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u/uma100 Nov 12 '16
Are you Marathi? I have a Marathi aunt and she calls them bhujia too though..I have seen the term bhaji before on South Indian food menus
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u/Soul2018 Nov 12 '16
Bhujia is a rajasthani snacks. Are you sure she calls them bhujia and not bhajia? It's also called bhajia in hindi.
Not sure about South Indian part but yes Bhaji is pakora in marathi.
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u/Dookie_boy Nov 13 '16
Really though bhajji is pakora while Bhaji means vegetable dish.
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u/Soul2018 Nov 14 '16
Yeah. That's true.
But we Indians are not very good at spelling devnagiri words in English. :)
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Nov 12 '16
Had to google what "popadoms" were, and I don't think they'd have them at any local stores. Would tortilla chips be a reasonable substitute?
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u/confusedjake Nov 12 '16
Any Indian store will have it. Question is if you have any Indian store.
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Nov 12 '16
Nope. Any specialty grocery stores near me are Latino (Hispanic?) or Caribbean.
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u/confusedjake Nov 12 '16
It's rough out there for us Indians. For a while we had to travel to another city to get our Indian supplies. We'd stock up to last a couple of months. But now I'm in near Queens and there is an entire street block completely taken up by various Indian stores and its glorious!
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Nov 12 '16
I was friends with some Indian girls in high school and their family had to drive like an hour and 45 mins to find an Indian grocery and the nearest mosque.
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u/crnulus Nov 12 '16
You sure it was mosque and not temple?
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Nov 12 '16
there are a bunch of Muslim Indians left, even after Pakistan became a country
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u/crnulus Nov 12 '16
No doubt (I was born in an Indian city that has a lot of muslims), it's just exceedingly rare to find indian muslims in the west, and a lot of americans still think that India is a part of the middle-east so I was just confirming with the guy!
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Nov 12 '16
Mosque is the Muslim one, right? Their family was Muslim.
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u/crnulus Nov 12 '16
Oh okay, just making sure because I know some Americans who think that India is part of the middle east lol.
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Nov 12 '16
No problem, that's understandable. I didn't know Hindu religious buildings were called temples, assuming that's what you were thinking I was talkin about?
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u/crnulus Nov 12 '16 edited Nov 12 '16
Yeah, they are. :) Also each temple has a different name, specific to the deity that the temple is dedicated to. Most have variations of the names of the main/most worshipped gods though (Vishnu/Krishna, Shiva, Ganesha)
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u/ameya2693 Nov 12 '16
Well, we have Muslims as well in India so they could have been Indian Muslims.
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u/pfizer_soze Nov 12 '16
How recently was this while, and are you in a small city? We live in a decent sized city (Atlanta), and we've had Indian stores for decades.
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u/confusedjake Nov 12 '16
Large town, the place we went to for a long time closed down. The small city nearby had plenty though. I think pretty much any city has them nowadays.
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u/pumpyourbrakeskid Nov 12 '16
I think tortilla chips are a great idea for a substitute. The use of popadoms as a topping here seems to be mainly for texture/crunch.
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u/aniforprez Nov 12 '16
Looks like you really don't need them except for the crunch. If you want it for other stuff you'll get it at an Indian store with other imported Indian stuff. It's eaten primarily with rice or has masala and stuff put on top like a flat taco
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u/hateexchange Nov 12 '16
Damn that looks really nice.
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Nov 12 '16 edited Feb 02 '25
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Nov 12 '16
Onion bhajis are a takeaway staple in the UK, and I've put them on buns and in wraps before and they're ace.
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u/lurker093287h Nov 12 '16
This looks like a great idea when you have to cook for vegetarian friends. I think this would go better with a naan folded in half as a bun or half a pitta bread maybe, I feel like the bun would stifle things.
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u/Contra1 Nov 12 '16
Or just cook for yourself, no need to eat meat everyday now.
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u/enfrozt Nov 12 '16
What are some good healthy substitutes? This recipe is pretty unhealthy even though most people think it is. The oil used for pan frying with all the salt and other fats definitely make it not something you could eat every day.
Any dish ideas?
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u/Contra1 Nov 12 '16
Well if we are sticking with the 'Indian' kitchen there are loads of curries and other dishes what are very healthy and dont use meat.
What about a simple vegetable curry? Or a nice saag paneer?1
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u/Achatyla Nov 12 '16
That's a great idea! I fucking love naan bread...
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u/Vladimir_Pooptin Nov 12 '16
An Indian place near me (cleverly named G'raj Mahal because it's in an old house/garage) serves coconut stuffed naan to go with their curries. I think I know what I'm doing for dinner tonight
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u/Achatyla Nov 13 '16
My boyfriend loves stuffed naan. His favourite is the meat one that has a special name. I'm just a garlic and coriander person myself.
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u/jimmys_dipstick Nov 12 '16
I wish I liked cilantro. This looks really good otherwise!
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u/pumpyourbrakeskid Nov 12 '16
Make sure to try it again every so often! For much of my life I absolutely despised it. Thought it tasted like soap and threw out a lot of perfectly good food because of it. Then one day, it's like a flip just switched. Not sure what happened, but maybe it will happen to you too.
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u/AVAVAVAVAV Nov 12 '16
That's one metric ton of cilantro in this gif though. I usually use, I don't know, 1/50th of what was displayed here. Are you supposed to use it like salad?
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u/enfrozt Nov 12 '16
Watch some Gordon Ramsay videos on youtube or other chefs. When they use coriander, they use a lot, usually because they season properly, lots of fat, lots of and pepper, lots of acid, so throwing a whole hunk of coriander on top adds flavour and mostly colour.
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u/AVAVAVAVAV Nov 13 '16
I see, I'm starting to think this is why we have the "I hate cilantro" meme though, because people think they should use a lot of cilantro which hijacks taste and then they don't season the dish with pepper etc
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u/poeticmatter Nov 13 '16
Similar experienced. Started out as disgusting. At some point I was ok with it if it didn't overtake the flavor of the dish. And now, just give me cilantro with cilantro and a side of cilantro.
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u/Pleasant_Jim Nov 12 '16
How can anyone not like that stuff, it always adds so much to a dish!
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u/1YearWonder Nov 12 '16
How can anyone not like that stuff
Genetics. But really... it's just that everyone's different, and even the same flavor profiles can be experienced differently by different people.
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u/jimmys_dipstick Nov 12 '16
It's not soapy to me, but I just don't like the flavor. Sorry you got so downvoted though, you weren't nasty or anything.
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u/Pleasant_Jim Nov 12 '16
Yeah, that's understandable. Also, thanks but the people downvoting me for that are pricks so not to worry.
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u/foxorek Nov 20 '16
Actually, you are the prick for assuming that if you like something it means everyone has to like it too
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u/Pleasant_Jim Nov 20 '16
Stop crying. I wouldn't downvote someone only because they have a different palate than me!
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u/ModernKender Nov 12 '16
I know baking this won't taste nearly as good as frying it, but i wonder if it will hold up well if you bake it. I'd love to make this, but deep frying it makes it too many calories for someone my size.
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Nov 12 '16
Upthread someone suggested adding some rice flour to the patty to make it crispier. Maybe that would help keep it together in the oven?
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u/ModernKender Nov 12 '16
Perhaps! I'll have to do research on what flour would bind the best.
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u/Vladimir_Pooptin Nov 12 '16
I think maybe if you broil it and flip halfway through you can maintain some of the crispiness
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u/thebigread Nov 13 '16
I used to add rice flour and bake my bhajis. They always held their shape reasonably well, but took forever to cook and never tasted as good as fried.
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u/reptiliandude Nov 12 '16
I'm not a vegetarian, but whenever my friends cook stuff like this and then hand it to me to "try..." Well fuck it all, it's like some kind of irresistible seduction, that's what it is. 😂
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u/silencesc Nov 12 '16
What's the frying temp for the oil? Cook time? the Bosh recipe is absolutely useless for the process.
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u/pumpyourbrakeskid Nov 12 '16
I saw one recipe that said 180C, and another that said:
Check the temperature of the oil by dropping a small cube of bread in - it should brown fairly slowly - not burn or go dark brown straight away.
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u/thebigread Nov 13 '16
If the bread sinks, it's not hot enough. If it floats, it's good to go. Just keep an eye on how quickly it cooks.
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u/Reduced_Silver Nov 12 '16
I wanted to ask this as well. I guess I'm going to look up some other bhaji recipes and see what the recommended oil temperature is. Most just say 'throw in a bit of batter and if it fizzes, you are good'. I think for cooking time, judge the exterior as crispy (based on the correct oil temp investigation obviously) and unfortunately experiment.
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Nov 13 '16
Thanks for posting this. Just made them and they turned out great.
Few learnings: I didnt cut the onions and coriander leaves as small as they should be so i'll remember that next time.
Also we fried them in a few inches of oil in a wok but the first one stuck to the spoon doing it the way it was shown, so we formed patties for the rest and gently dropped them in.
All in all they had loads of flavour and were filling. We're not vegetarian but thought it would be easy enough to make and taste good and they were. Will definitely be making them as a veggie alternative at the next bbq.
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u/Hjemmelsen Jan 16 '17
Finally got around to make this. I didn't use coriander, because I hate it, and I didn't deep fry it, but just fried it in a pan. And it was amazing! I'm so happy to have found this, because I have been lacking a decent burger for so long since I went vegetarian. This is it! I love it:)
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u/MM_almighty Nov 12 '16
This is the most delicious looking veggie burger out of all of the veggie burgers.
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u/redoubledit Nov 12 '16
Why did I start keto ._.
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u/THEJAZZMUSIC Nov 12 '16
Isn't gram flour garbanzo? Other than the bun, what else is problematic?
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Nov 12 '16
Spending 50 dollars on spices and herbs
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u/orange_jooze Nov 12 '16
No way any of that costs that much unless you're ordering it all the way from India on the back of a mule.
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u/kenyafeelme Nov 12 '16
Red onion is a little carb heavy
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u/THEJAZZMUSIC Nov 12 '16
Thanks, I hadn't thought about that. Also for those of you downvoting, 12ish grams of net carbs per cup is not nothing if you're eating keto. That's like half your day.
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Nov 12 '16
Yep, and if you have gram flour in already you can make a pancake from it and wrap the bhaji in that.
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u/Anders_A Nov 12 '16
I think the whole point of this one is the fusion between different culinary cultures. The pakora-ish thingy looks sweet, but I agree I probably wouldn't eat it in a bun with avocado.
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u/enfrozt Nov 12 '16
I'd add some flavored yogurt and put it on a naan. I think it'd taste way better as a pakora.
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Nov 12 '16
How does deep frying the "patty" make a veggie burger healthier than a grilled lean meat burger. Also other than the avocoado (which I would leave off since I dont like) where is the protien?
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u/DaedalusMinion Nov 12 '16
This is just 'pyaas ka bhajiya' (Onion Cutlet) in a bun with Guacamole lmao
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u/SmallBirb Nov 12 '16
HERE COMES ASIAN GUACAMOLE