Garbanzo Veggie Burger

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 (15 1/2 ounce) can garbanzo beans
• 1/2 cup of uncooked pearl barley
• 1/2 cup of uncooked brown rice
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 medium carrots (finely shredded)
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 3 tablespoons onion powder or 3 tablespoons onion flakes
• 2 teaspoons black pepper
• 2 teaspoons paprika
• 2 teaspoons cumin powder

Recipe

• 1 wash the barley and rice and drain.
• 2 add 1 1/2 cups of water to the grains and let it soak for 1 hour.
• 3 then cook the grains until done.
• 4 in a blender, puree the can of beans.
• 5 when done, put into a large bowl with the garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, paprika, and cumin powder and mix well.
• 6 add the shredded carrots to the bean mix.
• 7 when the grains are done cooking, put them into the blender in 1 cup batches (don't dump all the rice in at once because it becomes gummy) and blend until it forms sort of a sticky ball.
• 8 do this until all the grains are used up.
• 9 add the sticky rice mix to the garbanzo bean mix and blend well (i just used my hands).
• 10 add an egg to the mix now and stir.
• 11 now form the mixture into 10 balls and flatten them like burger patties.
• 12 put onto a lightly greased baking pan and broil about 5 inches from heat for 5 minutes per side.