Raw Food Veggie Burger


Ingredients:

  • 3 medium carrots, roughly chopped (about 2 cups)
  • 1 small bell pepper, roughly chopped (1 cup)
  • 1/2 white sweet onion, roughly chopped (1 cup)
  • 1 jalapeno, deseeded (optional)
  • 1 cup pecans, soaked in filtered water overnight, rinsed and drained
  • 3 tablespoons whole flax seeds
  • 1 teaspoon curry powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1 pinch black pepper
  • 1 teaspooon smoked paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon Himalayan pink salt
  • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
  • 1 date (preferably deglet nour, as they are less sweet) pitted
  • 1/2 teaspoon mustard


Method:

  1. Soak pecans in filtered water, covered, overnight. 
  2. Add carrots, bell pepper, onion, and jalapeno (if you like spicy) to a food processor, and pulse a few times until they break down.
  3. Next, rinse and drain pecans over a colander, and add them to the food processor, pulsing a few more times - the mixture should now start to resemble ground beef.
  4. Use a small blender or coffee grinder to grind the flax seeds, and add them to the food processor, along with all other ingredients. 
  5. Then, pulse a few more times, stopping to scrape the walls of the processor to make sure everything is well incorporated. 
  6. Now, place a handful of the mixture onto a dehydrator sheet - the size doesn't matter, just know that the bigger they are, the longer it'll take to dehydrate them. 
  7. Make about 6-9 burger patties, evenly spaced out and not touching on the dehydrator sheet. 
  8. Lastly, dehydrate for about 3-6 hours, depending on how firm you like your veggie burgers. After 3 hours, you will have a firm veggie burger on the outside, that is soft on the outside.

recipe and image: rawguru