Get the recipe: Superiority Burgers
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After I first wrote about Brooks Headley’s Superiority Burgers recipe 5 years in the past, I knew veggie burgers could possibly be somewhat finicky. In spite of everything, I’ve spent numerous hours creating my very own strategies — together with staying away from meals processors in favor of hand-mashing, and baking them first to assist them set earlier than (or as an alternative of) frying. Veggie burger patties can usually fail to carry collectively correctly whenever you pan-fry them, however I believed that by means of some small variations in ingredient quantities and strategies, I had made Headley’s work. They have been somewhat crumbly, however tremendous tasty. There’s a purpose they’re the title providing at his New York restaurant.
Not each reader had the identical expertise, sadly. When one wrote a remark describing a disappointing expertise (“The problem I had was that they didn’t maintain collectively”), we tried them once more in our Meals Lab and realized they might use extra finessing. In subsequent exams, I ended up lowering the quinoa by a few third and doubling the potato starch, leading to sturdier (however no much less scrumptious) patties. I attempted pan-frying half the batch and baking the opposite half, and was pleasantly stunned to seek out that the fried patties held collectively properly, even higher than the baked ones, and I (once more) beloved the crispy texture that resulted.
I made one remaining tweak: a suggestion to solely barely toast the hamburger buns, if in any respect. That’s as a result of when the bun is closely toasted, it will probably compress a veggie patty an excessive amount of whenever you take a chew, inflicting it to squish out. If that occurred to a reader, we’d absolutely hear about it — and could be glad we did.
Get the recipe: Superiority Burgers