Serves:

12

Description:

These easily prepared burgers are great with tomato sauce or a vegetable dip, such as guacamole or hummus.

Ingredients:

• About 3 cups pumpkin flesh, diced
• 1/2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp plain flour
• 1/4 tsp curry powder
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup cooked peas
• 1/4 cup walnut flesh, chopped
• 4 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
• About 2 tbsp sesame seeds

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 220°C. Place diced pumpkin in a roasting tray and toss with olive oil. Bake until pumpkin is soft. (Alternatively, steam or microwave the pumpkin).
2. Reduce oven to 200°C.
3. Mash pumpkin well and mix with flour and curry powder and season with salt and pepper. Mix in peas, chopped walnuts and chopped coriander leaves. Shape into 8 small burgers. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, pressing the seeds in a little.
4. Place burgers on a piece of baking paper in an oven tray and bake at 200°C. for about 15 minutes.
5. Serve burgers with tomato sauce or a vegetable dip, such as guacamole or hummus.

Recipe by: Gabriel Gate`

Website: www.gabrielgate.com