On Saturday I decided on a whim that I wanted to make my own bean burgers. In order to do this I needed a food processor so after quick deliberation with Paul (when Paul realized that no matter what he said I would probably just go buy one anyway) and a glance at Bed Bath and Beyond's website, I was out the door to buy a gadget I have wanted for quite some time now. This food processor can do pretty much everything. It mixes dough, slices, chops, grates, blends, creams, etc. etc. I can make blended soups, chop nuts, make salsa, make any type of dough I want, make coleslaw, and on an on.
The possibilities are endless!
So this weekend I played with my new toy. The first thing I made was my inspiration for getting the toy in the first place: Vegan Bean Burgers. The fact that these burgers are vegan really doesn't matter. What matters is, that in the food blog world, they are amazing.
Listen up people: These burgers are SO FREAKING GOOD. Make some. ASAP.
I made about 5 bean burgers by halving the recipe so I had them on Saturday night and Sunday night. Sunday night I tried using the "gourmet french fry" disc that came with the food processor, but after putting a potato through, I did not have french fries. Not even close. They were tiny matchsticks of all different sizes. I don't know if I did it wrong or what, but I don't know how they could call these fries!
They kind of look like grated pears. Anyway, that is indeed a potato. I obviously couldn't make fries out of that, so instead I made hashbrowns! I used this recipe, as the Simply Recipes website is amazing.
My hashbrowns turned out very tasty. The only thing I need to tweak is to make them less greasy as the raw potato absorbed all the oil and they were very 'greasy-spoon' style hashbrowns. A little ketchup and hot sauce made them sooooo good!
And as you can see there is another burger on the side. Can we just pause a second and check out the color on this burger ?!
After dinner I was craving something sweet. Ice cream to be specific. Only problem? No ice cream to be found in the freezer. But what I did have in the freezer was a frozen banana. I used my food processor to cream the frozen banana with a fresh banana into .... Banana soft serve!
Bananas went from this:
To this:
And with the help of melted chocolate chips and chopped pecans, to this:
Oh yeah. Thank you food processor!
Watching you use the wrong accessory, chopping the carrots instead of grating them, was priceless.
ReplyDeleteI love kitchen gadgets! My favorite investment would be our Pampered Chef knives. I just took our food processor out of the box so I'll have to see if we have an ice cream option! Very cool!
ReplyDelete~Dawn