Even meat-lovers will be asking for seconds with this incredible veggie burger: spicy cauliflower steak, filling Moroccan Spiced Bakes and the best dairy free pesto pack this recipe full of delicious summer flavour. This burger is divine served with sweet potatoes fries, a refreshing salad or some grilled corn-on-the-cob.
Thank you to Happy Skin Kitchen for this delicious recipe.
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 Gosh! Moroccan Spiced Bake
1 bread bun of your choice
1 thick slice of a large tomato
A handful of shredded carrots and sprouts (these are optional)
A handful of shredded purple cabbage
For the cauliflower “steak”:
3 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1 tsp of turmeric powder
½ tsp of smoked paprika
Salt & pepper to taste
1 cauliflower
For the homemade hummus:
1 can of drained and rinsed chickpeas
1 heaped tablespoon of tahini paste
1 clove of garlic
The juice of ½ lemon
½ teaspoon of cumin powder
Salt & pepper to taste
For the homemade pesto:
½ cups of almonds – use sunflower seeds to keep it nut free
1 cup of fresh basil leaves
The juice of ½ lemon
3-4 tablespoons of olive oil
2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast (optional but gives a nice cheesy flavour)
1 clove of garlic
Salt & pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to electric 200°c/fan oven 180°c/gas mark 4
- Add all hummus ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth, for about 2-3 minutes. Set aside.
- Put all pesto ingredients into a food processor and blitz until you have a fairly smooth and creamy consistency. Set aside.
- Remove all the leaves and stalk from the cauliflower. With a sharp knife slice the cauliflower into 1 ½ cm thick “steaks”.
- In a small bowl mix the olive oil, lemon juice, ground coriander, turmeric, smoked paprika cumin, salt and pepper. Brush the cauliflower steaks with the marinade and place them on a plate to marinate for ideally 1 hour, if you have time.
- Heat up a griddle pan on a medium heat. Place the cauliflower steak into the pan and cook it on each side for 4-5 minutes.
- Cook the Gosh! bake in the centre of the oven for 15-20 minutes
- Toast the bread bun either in the pan or in the oven.
- Spread some hummus on each side of the bread bun. Start by layering the shredded purple cabbage, add the tomato slice, Gosh! bake on top, cauliflower steak, a generous dollop of pesto and finish with the shredded carrots and sprouts (if using). Serve and eat straight away!