Remember the cooked barley I said to keep in the freezer after making lemon barley cordial, well here is what I make with it vegie burgers. You can use red rice or even white or brown rice if you don’t have the barley.
Method:
Place about 1 cup of the barley in a large bowl or jug and add:
1 tsp sea salt, 1 tsp mixed dried herbs, 1 tsp curry powder, about 8 grinds black pepper, 1 cup fresh breadcrumbs, 2 beaten eggs, 1 chopped red onion or if you use brown cook it slightly first, 1 grated carrot.
You can also add some chopped fresh spinach or a cube of thawed frozen spinach. Mix all together, at this point you need to decide if it looks too wet add some more breadcrumbs if too dry some more beaten egg, but you can make sure your happy with the mix and flavor by frying a tablespoon first and tasting. It’s a bit too late after you have cooked it all :-O
What I do is use those metal egg rings to fry them as you can pile the mix into the egg ring and when cooked one side flip them over. It helps if you can oil the rings first but not vital just run a blade around the rings to remove the burgers. My favorite filling is using organic red rice the texture is almost like beef and is a dark color too, but they are both delicious on a soft bun with salad. My pictures are of the rice burgers the barley ones were gone before I could ta
ke a picture.
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