white bean & quinoa patties

We've been trying lots of new recipes since embarking on the 30 day vegan diet. Any recipe that includes quinoa makes me a little bit leery, but I decided to give the White Bean and Quinoa Patties a try and I'm glad I did.

I mixed together the white bean and quinoa along with some herbs and onions from our garden. We don't have a food processor, so we ran the mixture through our meat grinder (from my grandparents); as an aside, it is surprising how much use two vegetarians have gotten out of a meat grinder...cranberry salad, pesto, peach butter, etc. Anyway, the bean and quinoa mixture looked like ground meat and the flavors were all so good together, I ate several spoonfuls of it just like that.

Then we realized that we did not have hamburger buns. A quick search on the Internet for some vegan hamburger buns and we were suddenly pulling together a gourmet sandwich.

The buns came together rather easily and the texture was like a soft kaiser roll.

Saute the patties in a litte olive oil...

Add some freckled lettuce from the garden and served with wheat berry salad.

Delicious!