The Really Hungry Burger – Recipes – Anna Jones

Ingredients

• olive oil
• 6 big portobello mushrooms, roughly chopped into little bits
• a few sprigs of fresh thyme, leaves picked
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 × 400g tin of white beans, haricot or cannellini, well drained
• 4 fat medjool dates, pitted
• 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
• a small bunch of fresh parsley, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons tahini
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
• 200g cooked and cooled brown rice (100g raw weight)
• 50g breadcrumbs or oats
• grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
• 1–2 avocados, peeled and sliced tomato relish or ketchup
• pickled cucumber (see above)
• a few handfuls of spinach leaves
• 8 seeded burger buns (I use wholemeal ones)