Carrot Burgers

With fresh carrots, chickpeas and curry powder, these carrot burgers are packed with flavor, making them a great vegetarian option for a burger.

If you follow this blog at all, you know Lauren and I love some veggie burgers - from green chili veggie burgers to quinoa burgers.

While we love a good old-fashioned burger, we just don't have them that often. Veggie burgers are great for nights where I don't feel like cooking. We always have some type of vegetarian burger in the freezer for such occasions.

While I've shared quite a few recipes, I actually haven't created a new one recently. I was looking for some inspiration and it actually came from our garden.

This year my wife decided to plant a garden and one of the many fresh vegetables we had were carrots. Since we had quite a few carrots on hand and I was looking for a new recipe, the light went off immediately to create carrot veggie burgers.

I kept going back and forth on flavors and decided to go Indian with curry powder. You may look and be like - wow that's a lot of curry powder! Don't worry though, it's just the right amount.

And the addition of the rice give these carrot burgers a great texture that holds together well, something we veggie burger eaters know can be difficult to accomplish.

Jump to:

• Recipe Ingredients
• How to Make Carrot Burgers
• Curry Powder vs. Curry Paste
• Can I Make these Vegan/Egg Free?
• Pro Tips/Recipe Notes
• Similar Recipes
• Carrot Burgers

Recipe Ingredients

• Carrots, shallot, garlic - where most of the flavor comes from.
• Chickpeas - helps create the texture you expect.
• Old-fashioned oats and brown rice - holds the burger together.
• Egg - binds the veggie burgers together.
• Curry powder, cumin, paprika, salt, black pepper, ground ginger - enhances the flavor.
• Buns - from bread thins to pretzel rolls, any sandwich bread will work.
• Cheese, tomato, avocado, ketchup, etc… - use whatever toppings you desire.

How to Make Carrot Burgers

1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Place carrots, shallot and garlic in food processor and pulse until chopped up.
2. Add remaining ingredients and pulse until everything comes together.
3. Use ½ cup measuring cup and scoop out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Press down to desired thickness. It should give you 8 patties.
4. Bake in oven for 20 minutes at 400°F before flipping and baking another 20 minutes. This should give you enough consistency to be able to freeze or cook the rest of the way to eat now. If eating now, heat a medium skillet over medium heat with enough oil to cover bottom of skillet. Cook 3-4 minutes on each side. If using cheese add after flipping. Add toppings of your desire to the carrot burgers.

Curry Powder vs. Curry Paste

Curry powder is a blend of spice mixes usually containing coriander, turmeric and red peppers. Curry paste is a blend of spice mixes mixed with wet ingredients and is much stronger than curry powder.

Therefore if you want to use curry paste the ratio is 1 teaspoon curry paste to 1 tablespoon curry powder. In this recipe you'd use 1 ½ teaspoon curry paste. You can also make your own curry powder for these carrot burgers.

Can I Make these Vegan/Egg Free?

Yes you can use any egg substitute like flax or chia eggs, or 1 tablespoon of vegan mayo. If using flaxseed or chia seeds, stir 1 tablespoon flaxseed meal or chia seeds in 2 ½ tablespoon water and let sit for 5 minutes before using. (This replaces 1 egg)

I personally don’t eat vegan so don’t make a ton of vegan meals but these will taste just as good with the substitutes.

Pro Tips/Recipe Notes

I’ve made plenty of veggie burgers in the past few years and discovered that there are three keys to keeping your burgers together.

1. Oats – by placing old-fashioned oats in the food processor and pulsing a few times, you create a healthy binder that is better than flour.
2. Eggs – eggs help bind the burger. I originally didn’t use eggs and found that they just didn’t hold together like I wanted but with these, 2 eggs make all the difference. As mentioned above, you can use a vegan substitute.
3. Bake – bake the patties before freezing or cooking the rest of the way. By baking the veggie burgers for 40 minutes (20 minutes per side), you allow the outside of the patties to develop a crust. You can then freeze the veggie burgers from here or finish on the stove-top to develop a charred crust.

Similar Recipes

• Black Bean Veggie Burgers
• Spicy Cauliflower Veggie Burgers
• Sun-Dried Tomato Chickpea Veggie Burgers
• Butternut Squash Burgers
• Sweet Potato Black Bean Burgers

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