Nutritious Burger Recipe (Indian Diabetic Recipes)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup soy granules
• 3/4 cup grated carrot
• 1/2 cup crumbled low fat paneer (cottage cheese)
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
• 2 tbsp whole wheat flour (gehun ka atta)
• lemon
• 1/2 tsp garlic (lehsun) paste
• 1 tsp green chilli paste
• 1/4 cup finely chopped mint leaves (phudina)
• salt (namak) and
• 1 tsp oil for greasing and cooking
• 3/4 cup low fat curds (dahi)
• 1/4 cup chopped spring onion greens
• 1/2 cup finely chopped capsicum (chopped red capsicum,
• 1/2 tsp garlic (lehsun) paste
• 1 tsp dry red chilli flakes (paprika)
• salt (namak) to taste
• 6 burger buns
• 1 1/2 tsp butter for cooking
• 6 lettuce
• 18 sliced cucumber
• 18 tomato slices
• 6 onion slice

Steps

1. Clean and wash the soya granules thoroughly.
2. Combine the soya granules and 1 cup of hot water in a deep bowl, mix well and keep aside to soak for 10 minutes. Drain and squeeze out all the water and discard it.
3. Combine all the ingredients, including the soya granules, in a deep bowl and mix well.
4. Divide the mixture into 6 equal portions and shape each portion into an even sized flat round tikki.
5. Heat a non-stick tava (griddle), grease it with ¼ tsp of oil and cook each tikki using r ? tsp oil on a medium flame, till they turn golden brown in colour from both the sides. Keep aside.
6. Divide the vegetable dressing into 6 equal portions and keep aside.
7. Slice a whole whear burger bun into two halves and toast each halve lightly on a tava (griddle) using ? tsp of butter.
8. Spread a portion of the dressing on each halve.
9. Place the lower half of the bun on a clean, dry surface with the buttered-dressing side facing upwards, and put 1 lettuce leaf, 1 cutlet, 3 cucumber slices, 3 tomato slices and 1 onion slice, and cover with an upper half of the bun with the buttered- dressing side facing down and press
10. Repeat step 4 to make 5 more burgers.
11. Serve immediately.