Finally–some recipes:)

White Bean Burger with Sprouts

First of all, I just want to say that sprouts are the coolest thing ever! I recently sprouted mung beans and it was so easy and fun.

This jar of sprouts started out as a measly 1/2 cup.  To do the sprouts, I rinsed very well and drained the mung beans. Then I just placed them in a jar with a thin cloth over the the top. I put a rubber band around the top to hold the cloth on. I then tilted the jar and laid it in my window sill. You can lay it anywhere as long as it’s tilted. I think I read too that you don’t want to put in a lot of sunlight. My window in the kitchen doesn’t get much sun:) Rinse and drain the beans 2-3 times a day and then tilt again. It doesn’t take long before you see babies! In about three days, you will be blessed with bunches of babies! I ate these with veggies and chicken mostly, but then needed to use them up before they went bad. I wasn’t real sure at the time how to store them or how long they would last.

Since getting my handy dandy book yesterday, I now know that they can be stored in the fridge covered with water. But, it is still best to use them as soon as possible. My book says to soak the beans for 24-36 hours, but I didn’t do that and they were fine. I KNEW this book would come in handy:) You better believe I am going on a sprouting expedition! In fact, I would like to try burgers using more sprouted beans.

Okay, on to the burger recipe:)

Here are the ingredients:

1 can chickpeas

1 can small white beans

1-1/2 cups mung bean sprouts(chopped)

2 carrots chopped

1 onion diced

4 cloves fresh garlic

2 green chili peppers diced

2 Tbs. organic ketchup

3 Tbs. wheat free soy sauce

3 Tbs. Dijon mustard

3 tsp. cumin

3 tsp. chili powder

1 cup quinoa flakes

4 Tbs. coconut flour

2 eggs (I will leave these out next time due to tummy issues)

salt and pepper to taste

1 Tbs. olive oil

cooking spray or more oil for frying

Whew! That’s a long list, but they are easy peasy!

Put 1Tbs. oil in large skillet to saute’ onions, garlic, green chili peppers, and carrots. Add cumin and chili powder and cook a minute more. In the meantime, you can be smashing your beans and chopping the sprouts and place into a large bowl. Add onion and carrot mixture to beans. Stir in quinoa flakes(you could use oats if you aren’t fond of the taste of quinoa), eggs if using, coconut flour, ketchup, Dijon and soy sauce. Then you mix like this:

See how fun! Next you form them into patties and cook in a little olive oil or non stick spray. Be careful not to flip them too early. They need to cook pretty good on one side before flipping without breaking. My daughter is the pro at this:) This should make about 12 patties.

I had one on gluten free bread with soycheese.

Another day, I had one crumbled on my salad. Yeah me! I can eat raw spinach now! (as long as I don’t over do it:)

I will have to save the recipe for coconut milk yogurt for another post. My post seem to be very lengthy these days! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this recipe! I would love to hear any of your sprouting experiences:) I want to eventually do a post all about sprouting, soaking and fermenting.

Speaking of fermenting–I tried to make a gluten free version of ’sourdough’ bread. I used oatgurt as the starter. I mixed all the ingredients together and let it sit for 24 hours. I had a basic recipe to kind of go by (except using oatgurt was my idea and I changed the flours I used). Anyway, it looked like it was really going to work and I was so excited when it was time to stick it in the oven this morning. Well, let me just say–DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!! I baked it and it even smelled yummy. It didn’t look half bad when I got it out either.

I was filled with hope and anticipation as I waited for it to cool. I cut into it and took the first bite. I tried to be in denial and tell myself that it wasn’t THAT bad. It didn’t work! It tasted AWFUL!! Tie me up and gag me with a spoon AWFUL!! I think I’ll stick to no bread and occasionally have the yummy recipe I made the other day. Too much bread is never a good thing for my gut anyway:)

Okay, gotta run now. Hope everyone had a wonderful day!