Tandoori Veggie Burger

Tandoori Veggie Burger made with sweet potatoes, black beans, oats and amazing tandoori flavors, topped with minty yogurt sauce and crispy fried pickled jalapeños.

This is not your average burger. This burger is an ultimate veggie burger. The gluten-free and dairy-free patty holds amazing nutrients like sweet potatoes, black beans, gluten free rolled oats and amazing tandoori flavors. Oh and when there is tandoori anything, how can we not have minty yogurt sauce to complement the tandoori flavors. Yes, that is right. This recipe includes spicy minty garlicky yogurt sauce. If it is too much to make, you can simply use store bought jalapeño ranch to make your life a bit easy!

Did I mentioned this ultimate burger is topped with crispy fried pickled jalapeños?!?! Yes, The texture and taste of these crispy fried pickled jalapeños enhances the flavor of these tandoori veggie burgers! I know, it is an extra step but trust me with these crispy fried pickled jalapeños! Thank me later.

You can make all three major items in this dish ahead of time. Make these veggie patties couple of days earlier or on weekend. You can use these patties not only for yogurt but also in your salads! The yogurt sauce can also be made couple of days prior to eating. You can use this yogurt sauce as dipping sauce and salad dressing as well. The fried pickled jalapeños can be made few days ahead as well. You can crisp it up by tossing them in a toaster oven or an air fryer for few minutes. Once you have all these three major items prepared ahead of time, it is only a matter of assembling!

This is my must have item for Memorial day weekend BBQ. Would you be making them as well? If you do make them and end up liking them, tag me on Instagram @myvegetarianroots!
Happy & Healthy Eating!

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Tandoori Veggie Burger

Veggie Burger made with sweet potatoes, black beans, oats and amazing tandoori flavors, topped with minty yogurt sauce and crispy fried pickled jalapeños.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American, Indian

Prep Time 40 minutes minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes minutes

Servings 9

Ingredients

Veggie Patty

• 2 Sweet Potatoes medium sized
• 1 can Canned Black Beans washed, drained completely and mashed
• 1 tbsp Oil
• ½ cup Chopped Onions
• 1 Jalapeno chopped
• 1 tsp Minced Garlic
• ½ tsp Grated Ginger
• 1 cup Gluten Free Rolled Oats
• 2 tsp Tandoori Masala
• ½ tsp Roasted Cumin Powder
• ½ tsp Garam Masala
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Chaat Masala
• 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
• 1 tsp Kasuri Methi

Mint Yogurt Sauce (Can sub this with store bought spicy jalapeno ranch)

• ¼ cup Cilantro
• ¼ cup Mint
• 5 Scallions green part
• ½ tsp Roasted Cumin Powder
• ½ tsp Salt
• 1 clove Garlic
• ½ cup Plain Greek Yogurt silken tofu or vegan yogurt for dairy free option
• ¼ cup Sour Cream skip for dairy free option
• ½ Jalapeno 1 whole if preferred spicy

Fried Pickled Jalapeños

• ½ cup Pickled Jalapeños more if you have leftover chickpea flour batter
• ¼ cup Chickpea Flour
• ¼ tsp Salt
• ¼ tsp Roasted Cumin Powder
• ¼ tsp Red Chili Powder
• ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
• ¼ tsp Chaat Masala
• 3-4 tbsp Spicy Pickled Juice
• ⅛ tsp Baking Powder 2-3 pinches
• ½ cup Oil to Fry

Assembly

• 9 slice Pepper Jack Cheese vegan cheese or no cheese for dairy free option
• 9 buns Burger Buns
• ¼ cup Spicy Green Chutney
• 2 tbsp Amul Butter any butter or oil for dairy free option
• 1 Onion thinly sliced
• 2 Tomatoes thinly sliced
• 1 Lettuce either separated leaves or shredded
• 1 tbsp Chaat Masala

Instructions

Make Tandoori Patties

• Preheat oven on 400° F and roast two medium sized sweet potatoes for 35-40 minutes. Poke the sweet potatoes with knives before roasting them.°
  
• Once roasted/baked, let it cool down. Once cooled down, take the skin off and mash them. Keep it aside.
• Process rolled oats in food processor to make grainy flour. Keep it aside.
• Heat 1 tbsp of oil, saute cumin seeds until golden brown.
• Add chopped onions, jalapeños, minced garlic and grated ginger to the pan and saute on medium heat for 3-4 minutes. Once cooked let it cool down for few minutes.
  
• Mix all the other ingredients listed under veggie patty ingredients list along with mashed sweet potatoes, coarse rolled oats flour and onion/jalapeños mix.
  
• Do not over mix it. The patty mix should not be too firm or soft. The oats in the mix will start to absorb moisture from the patties and start to become little more firm. If it is not firm enough to hold the patty, you can add little oat flour at a time to get right consistency.
• Make even sized 9-10 patties. Cook them with some oil in the pan on stove top on medium heat on both sides. Each side should take anywhere from 4-7 minutes to cook with good charred marks on them.
  
• If you are using grill to make the burgers, do the same process as described using pan. I would recommend using a grilling mat instead of putting them directly on the grill. Once they firm a little, you can put them on the grill for more charred marks and smokiness. Or you can make it on stove top in a pan ahead of time and warm it up on the grill later also.
  

Make Fried Pickled Jalapeños

• Place ½ cup of pickled jalapeños on couple of paper towel to get rid as much moisture as possible.
  
• Mix chickpea flour and the spices listed under "Fried Pickled Jalapeños" ingredients list.
• Add little Jalapeños pickle juice at a time to make pancake like batter.
• Heat some oil to deep fry the Jalapeños. Deep each pickled jalapeños in the batter and place them in the hot oil.
  
• Deep fry them until they become golden brown and crispy. Place them on a paper towel to soak extra oil.
  
• If making them early, you can pop these deep fried pickled jalapeños in the toaster oven on 325°F for 4-6 minutes to make them crispy again.

Make Minty Yogurt Sauce

• Blend all ingredients listed under "Mint Yogurt Sauce" ingredients list until its almost smooth. I like to make it little grainy for texture. If making it early, store it in the refrigerator up to 2 days.

Assembly

• Spread some butter on buns and warm it either on the grill or in the pan on stove top.
• Spread some spicy green chutney on each side.
• Place sliced onion and lettuce on one side of the bun and sprinkle some chaat masala.
• Place sliced pepper jeck cheese on hot patty and let it melt a little.
• Place cheesy patty on the onion/lettuce stack.
• Place sliced tomato on top of cheesy patty and sprinkle some chaat masala.
• Place fried pickled jalapeños on top of the tomato layer and top that with the side of the bun.
• Serve it immediately with more crispy fried pickled jalapeños and potato chips.