Vegetarian lunch
I'm on a new mission to try and eat more vegeatrian food. The reasons for this are that I don't believe we need as much meat as we are eating today, and the meat industry is really harmful to the environment. Now I'm always careful to buy Swedish meat, to lessen the impact on the environment, but exchanging a couple of meals' meat with beans and/or lentils is a good way forward. We need to be more aware of what our actions do to our planet. Anyway, this was a nice filling meal, and I'm planning to make many similar ones to this in the future!
Chickpea burgers for 3-4 (Highly adapted from "Laga GI" for Aftonbladet):
- 1 can of chickpeas (250 grams when drained)
- 1 white onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 carrots
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbsp flour
- some fresh coriander
- salt and pepper
Peel and grate the onion. Drain and rinse the chickpeas and mix all ingredients into a bowl, except for carrots. Mix together with a food processor, or a rod mixer and then stir in the carrots. Spoon the mixture into an oiled frying pan, sizing them to small burgers and fry them on each side for about 6-8 minutes. still will make about 6 burgers, so it will leave you with lunch for the day after too ;-)
Rolls:
- 2,5 dl whole grain wheat flour
- a pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 25 grams butter
- 1 tbsp turkish/greek yoghurt or quark
- 1 dl milk
Mix the dry ingredients together, add butter+yoghurt and mix until grainy. Add milk and mix until it's a smooth and slightly soft dough. Shape into 2 rolls and bake in the oven at 250 degrees C, for 10 minutes. Tip: these do really well as breakfast rolls too, freshly baked with butter and cheese ;)
The man in the house even ate these with good apetite ;-)