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Meatless Burgers: Over 50 Quick & Easy Recipes for America's Favorite Food

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If you like meatless burgers this book will show you how to make ones as good as the ones in the store, but that are significantly cheaper. The recipes are easy and quick. Nutrition information is included. The are a variety of recipes for using soy, wheat gluten, beans, grains, or vegetables to make burgers. If you have a problem with a particular ingredient you will find at least a few recipes that avoid using that ingredient. Included are recipes for side dishes. It is not high cuisine, but the recipes in this book are satisfying, tasty, easy and cheap.

In Meatless Burgers, vegetarian cook Louise Hagler demonstrates how easy and economical it is to make one of America's most popular foods. An assortment of beans, grains, and vegetables are transformed into tender, juicy, delicious, and satisfying burgers that are low in fat and high in fiber. Burgers are not only a great way to add soyfoods to the vegetarian diet, but an easy means of getting fussy meat eaters to consume their vegetables instead. From Black Ben Burgers, Sunflower-Brown Rice Burgers, and Soy Protein-Tofu Burgers, to Deviled Tempeh Burgers, Beet Burgers, and Middle Eastern Sesame Burgers, Meatless Burgers offers over fifty quick and easy recipes that are as taste satisfying as they are nutritious.

This is the tops in my kitchen. I've even bought one for several of our vegetarian friends. Fanstastic variety of natural homemade vege patties. No more store bought vege protein for us. Natural, even the children can make these, they are great, we love the black bean and rice patties, those are so delicious add some Braggs Aminos and whatever you like really. Great, easy, fun. I highly triple A recommend this book to all of you who like to make it yourself at home! Save a ton of money too!

I purchased several of these vegie burger books including this one and "vegetarian burgers"...this is a good book but could have been much better for several reasons - first, the author reies heavily on soy. I rarely use soy simply because I'm not a huge fan of the flavor however, it is often genetically modified and tends to act/interfere with hormone levels in some sensitive individuals so I'm sure there are others that are not huge soy fans other than myself. However, the soy reliance alone is not my "big beef" with this book...rather the inclusion of inferior ingredients found in many of the recipes is. While I realize many vegetarians have no problems putting all types of chemicals or other adulturants into their bodies as long as it isn't animal based, there are plenty of other people such as myself that avoid highly procesed, chemically tained products whenever possible. Sadly, this book includes many 'short cut' ingredients of dubious quality that are never found in my kitchen.


For those searching for one good book, try "vegetarian burgers", it includes a wider variety of grain, beans and other ingredients aside from soy. The author also uses fresh ingredients and very few processed seasonings or other "junk" in the recipes. It is simply beyond me why so many other authors take a nutritious food then add inferior ingredients to the recipe. NO _I AM NOT AFFILIATED WITH EITHER AUTHOR!!! Just a person that spent money on two books rather than one and hopes to help others avoid making the same mistake.

That having been said, the author does assume you are starting from canned beans and other sources rather than grinding your own or starting from fresh. I would love to have seen recipes included for self-grinding options since there are so many more options available than in whole form but, it is simple enough to experiment with the basic recipes to work out your very own.

I love a good veggie burger, and make all sorts. I am always out for new recipes, and constantly experimenting with things. So when i saw this book, i thought i would give it a try.
Traditionally i have classified veggie burgers into 2 realms, those that taste like meet, but dont have the consistency, and those that feel like meet but dont taste like it.
This book creates neither.... I have never done so much work, and gotten such odd ingredients for such a rotten return.
If you are not a vegetarian, but rather a carnivore looking for an alternative to a regular hamburger, I would suggest looking elsewhere. The burgers in this book just don't cut it.

This book is PERFECT! I wanted recipes for meatless burger patties and this delivered! Easy and yummy recipes! Love this book!

I love veggie burgers, so this was a wonderful addition to my collection, the only problem was that it wasn't biig enough :)

Of the 49 burger recipes in this book, only 12 are soy-free. For those of us with soy allergy, and it tends to be a bad one, this is a poor ratio. It would have been helpful if the book description had included some information about this balance. It's about time the "health food" machine started giving us allergics a little consideration!

This cookbook looks great. Can't wait to try some of the burgers.
I'm very happy with my purchase

This book came highly recommended to me. I have a daughter and grand-daughter that are vegetarians so I purchased the book. But since they have not come to visit me, I have not had occasion to use any of the recipes. However, as I said the book came highly recommened to me.