GREEN LENTIL BURGERS- Vegan |Gluten free | Step by step recipe

Green Lentil Burgers with papaya and beetroot salad. This lovely, healthy and protein-rich snack is wholesome and yummy. This is also a complete meal by itself.

Moong dal/ Green Lentil (whole or slit) carries a variety of benefits. Adding this lentil to your daily meal can aid multiple benefits such as :

1. It aids digestion and helps in weight loss.
2. Good for your heart.
3. Rich in minerals like potassium, magnesium, iron, and copper and also contains folate fiber and vitamin B6.
4. High in protein and low in carbohydrates.
5. Helps prevent diabetes.
6. Boosts blood circulation.
7.  Maintains healthy brain function.

So with all these amazing benefits, adding moong to your daily meal is a must. But instead of the regular recipes, why not add a twist and make moong dal adapt new versions which are healthy as well as interesting.

The salad added as a base to this Burger is another amazing healthy salad recipe. You may find the recipe on the blog at the link here: Papaya-Corn-Beetroot salad. #vegan #plantbased 

Another such healthy Burger recipe on the blog you may like is Beetroot Burgers. Click to get the recipe.

Some other interesting Lentil snacks/ Snacks and Burger recipes you may like :

1. Yam Burger.
2. Potato and Lentil Croquettes- Vegan
3. Spiced Savory Waffles | The best savory waffles
4. Nutrela broken wheat Fritters-how to make soy chunks and daliya fritters
5. Green Chutney | Coriander Chutney
6. Moong Dal/Green Gram Pakoras (Fritters)

GREEN LENTIL BURGERS- Vegan | Step by step recipe

Green lentil Burgers / Moong Dal Burgers are an easy and healthy Burger recipe. High protein, plant-based diet for healthy snacking.

Course appetizer, breads, breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, main course, Main Dish, snack

Cuisine fusion, indian

Keyword Burger

Servings 5 Burgers

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25-40 minutes

Passive Time 8 hours

Ingredients

For moong dal patties

• 1 cup Sabut moong dal Whole green lentil

For Green lentil Burgers

• 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
• 2-3 Boiled potatoes
• 2-3 tbsp cornflour or Gram flour /Rice flour/ all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp paprika or degi mirch as per your preference
• 1 tsp lemon juice

Instructions

1. Soak the moong dal /green whole lentil in a bowl overnight or for 7 -8 hours.
2. Remove the water and grind it to a fine paste in a grinder. Try not to make the batter flowy as we need to bake the patties. (See Notes under)
3. Heat the oven at 250 degrees celsius. In a greased pan, place thin patties of moong dal batter: as in pic. Bake this until done or for 20 minutes on the grill option. No need to add anything extra at this stage. Alternately, if you do not wish to bake, then deep fry them once and keep aside.
4. Now, once the patties are done. Crush them in a grinder/mixer jar to powder.
5. Now, in a bowl add boiled potato, ginger-garlic paste, salt, spices, and the moong dal batter. Mix well and make the Burgers.
6. Shallow fry or just pan fry them with little oil on both sides.

For assembly of Burgers

1. Roast the buns. Apply green mint sauce on the base. Place a cheese slice on it. put some papaya salad prepared (recipe link in post) and place the burgers on top. Pour come tomato ketchup over it.
2. Add salt and pepper and serve hot.

Recipe Notes

1. To avoid frying twice, we have baked the moong dal patties to cook them well first and then ground them to a powder and added potatoes to bind them to make burgers. In case you are ok with frying, then you may not bake and fry then moong dal patties once and them crush them to powder.