Chipotle bean burger with sweet potato wedges
Prep
15 mins
Cook
30 mins
Servings
4
Difficulty
Medium
Here's a recipe I absolutely love making when I want something satisfying but don't have hours to spend cooking. Chipotle bean burgers with sweet potato wedges come together in under 45 minutes, which is perfect for a busy weeknight. The beauty of using canned beans is that they're already cooked and packed with fibre, making this meal genuinely good for you without any fuss. The smoky chipotle paste gives these burgers real depth of flavour, while the crispy sweet potato wedges on the side are naturally sweet and totally irresistible. It's affordable, quick, and honestly tastes like you've put in way more effort than you actually have.
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Ingredients
- 700 gramssweet potatoes
- 1 tbspsunflower oil
- 75 gramswholemeal bread
- 5salad onion
- 400 gramsmixed bean salad(drained and rinsed)
- 1free range egg
- 1 tbspchipotle paste
- 100 gramspeppadew peppers(finely chopped)
- 1lime
- 8lettuce(large lettuce leaves)
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Instructions
- 1
Heat the oven to 220°C, gas mark 7. Cut the sweet potatoes into thin wedges, place on a baking tray, drizzle and toss in 2 tsp oil. Season and bake for 30 minutes, turning once.
- 2
Meanwhile, in a food processor, whizz the bread to coarse crumbs. Add 4 chopped salad onions, the beans, egg and chipotle paste, then pulse until coarsely chopped.
- 3
Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan. Shape the mixture into 4 patties about 2cm thick. Add to the pan and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes each side until lightly browned. Transfer to the sweet potato tray and cook for 5 minutes in the oven.
- 4
Slice the last salad onion and mix with the peppers, lime zest and juice.
- 5
Serve the burgers in ‘cups’ made from 2 lettuce leaves, with the sides.
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