Vegetarian apple-sage chickpea burgers with roast potatoes.

Yesterday, Julie and Elke from supo {Dutch online magazine, not the pill in the butt, folks} came to dinner. 

These girls are so much fun!

They asked questions.

I said stuff like: 

'I wish I could eat a single pie every day of the week.'

and 

'Every dish should contain butter...'

Totally legit answers.

Because they're doing a feature about student cooking, I made them totally student-survival food.

 My take on burgers and fries:

Vegetarian apple-sage chickpea burgers with 
roast potatoes.
yields 6 burgers
recipe adapted from: edible perspectives

500 g chickpeas
1 small onion, chopped
1 medium apple, grated + 1 apple, sliced {garnish}
1 T fresh ginger, grated
3 T sage, finely chopped
100 g flour
2T ground oats
1t garlic, minced
1t salt, pinch of black pepper
1-2T oil for cooking
6 burger buns/ sandwiches
1 cucumber
mixed salad
sprouts

one: rinse and drain the chickpeas. Mix them, together with the onion and garlic with your blender or foodprocessor until everything is combined. {Avoid over processing; you do want to have some texture in there}
two: squeeze the grated apple between a few paper towels or a kitchen towel to absorb a bit of the moisture.
three: stir in the apple, ginger and sage.
four: add the flour spoon by spoon; don't worry if the mixture is still a bit sticky.
five: add ground oats and salt and black pepper to taste
six: let it rest in the refrigerator while you pour yourself a glass of wine, at least 30 minutes.
seven: form patties and cook on each side over medium heat for about 4 minutes until golden.

I roasted the potatoes by simply cutting them in four, adding 2 T olive oil, 1 T of lemon juice and seasalt to taste; I layed them out on a baking tray and roasted them for 40 minutes on 230°C. Divine!

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Pictures by Julie Wijckmans

If you want to read the article they wrote click here {Dutch}.