Summer Burgers, Hold the Meat

[elleng]

'One difficulty I’ve experienced with vegetable-based burgers has been getting the right consistency, so that they hold together when you brown them. The solution to this occasional problem came in the form of some incredible patties that the chef Suvir Saran demonstrated this spring at the “Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives” conference at the Culinary Institute of America in the Napa Valley. He used farro, sweet potatoes, mushrooms and peanuts in his burgers, and they were flawless.

The secret to their easy-to-work-with consistency was the sweet potatoes.'

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/summer-burgers-hold-the-meat/?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

[PumpkinAle]

1. Thanks - looking for low salt recipes

so will play around with these.

[kentauros]

2. I was ready to try this, until I read

"sweet potatoes."

Is there any substitute? Because I truly hate sweet potatoes, much to the chagrin of well, everybody

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. I know that feeling

I loathe green peppers. The taste, and, even more, the smell nauseates me.

[kentauros]

6. You can bet, though, if someone discovered oodles of health benefits

in bell peppers, then you'd see them in everything, much like what has happened with sweet potatoes. And no amount of "But it's so healthy for you!!!" will make me change my mind. So is carrot juice, and I can't stand that, either. Just give me the whole carrot!

[surrealAmerican]

4. Some of their recipes have potatoes, not sweet potatoes.

[kentauros]

5. I suppose I can just substitute potatoes for the sweet ones

and see what happens. If it still doesn't bind properly, I'll just boil some flax seeds and use them like egg whites