Smoky Sweet Potato Burgers with Roasted Garlic Cream and Avocado.
Before we talk burgers, let me tell you what I’m doing.
I’m eating some blueberry yogurt pretzels (which are oh-so awesome… but would be even awesomer if they were really coated in yogurt and not white chocolate disguised as yogurt) and drinking a san pellgrino aranciata that is spiked with um… vodka, malibu and tequila. With those pretty perfectly square ice cubes.
I know. I just couldn’t decide! I just kept adding things to the soda until I got a taste that I liked. Mixologist I am not. Bad personal bartender I am.
But what is up with all of these flavors? Smoky sweet potato, roasted garlic and maple cream, avocado, then blueberry pretzels and this oddly concocted libation that I’m too embarrassed to name. Before you go claiming something craze balls like oh! you’re pregnant! (um no – vodkatequilarum what?) I think it’s just because my weekend was so.utterly.boring.
I mean, it was great, if you’re into that sort of thing that includes plastering yourself to the couch for so long that your body forms an identical indentation that’s semi-permanent, and ordering pizza Friday night which not only was dinner, but then also became lunch and then uh, dinner again on Saturday. Like the same pizza. Just microwaved. Not even warmed thoroughly in the oven. Oh no. I wasn’t even getting up long enough to preheat the oven and then throw the pizza in and blah blah blah. No way jose. I’d rather have my unequally microwaved-heated pizza (you know, so like the edge is so hot that you burn your mouth off, the bottom crust is now “gummy,” the middle is totally cold and the top crust is just hard as a rock?) on a paper plate and then re-faceplant into the cushions.
I wish I could be all “ohmygosh, it was so rainy and cozy all day Saturday and I just got so caught up in my book that I read then entire thing while sitting in my plush velour chair in my special corner of the room that I have all to myself”… but no. Nothing of the sort. I wore the same outfit and woke up at 9 and watched so much trash on TV that my brain nearly exploded. I didn’t even read the trillions of magazines I have to catch up on.
This would have been the perfect time to do those things that I “never have time for” such as fold a massive pile of laundry that is sitting smack dab in our living room floor (classy. want to come over?), reorganize our pantry, clean out the freezer, clean the bathrooms, scrub the floor, deconstruct the makings of my purse because it contains about six thousand small pieces of paper that I call “lists” along with random change, receipts and melted lip gloss, or reorganize every room in our house because we constantly complain about them. But no. We didn’t have time for that at all. We only had time for the couch.
Eh, but I did have time to make these burgers (I don’t even know HOW), and it was really only because I had planned on making my double bean burgers for meals this week and then realized I didn’t have double beans. No black beans to be found. But I did have a bunch of sweet potatoes so I mashed them all up and called them a burger. And topped them with some roasted garlic sauce and a dying avocado from the depths of my fridge. The key is to get the outsides really crispy and then just… well, eat them. It’s really quite simple.
Now don’t go getting all excited thinking that my husband ate these for dinner. Of course he didn’t. Well okay… he sort of did – he ate them as a side to some roasted chicken and dredged each forkful through a volcano of ketchup.
Welcome to my life.
Smoky Sweet Potato Burgers with Roasted Garlic Cream and Avocado
Ingredients
- 2 cups coarsely mashed sweet potatoes, or yams, about 2 large potatoes
- 2 bulbs of roasted garlic
- 1 cup cannellini benas, rinsed and drained if canned
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/3 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1/3 cup oat flour, or all-purpose, wheat, etc
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 1/2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon cumin
- 2-3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 avocado, sliced
- 2/3 cup plain greek yogurt or sour cream
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup,
- extra salt and pepper for seasoning yogurt/cream
- 4 whole wheat buns
Instructions
- To roast garlic, see this tutorial. I like to roast a few bulbs at once (like 4-5) to have for the week.
- Pierce potatoes (I used 2 large) all over with a fork and place on a paper towel, setting in the microwave. Microwave for 5 minutes, then flip and cook for 5 minutes more. Remove, slice in half and let cool until you can scoop out the flesh.
- In a large bowl, coarsely mash beans with a fork. Add in sweet potato and mash together, then add in spices, salt and pepper, minced garlic, egg, panko and flour. Mix together until combined, then place bowl in the fridge for 15-20 minutes. This helps form them into patties, but as a warning they are still somewhat messy.
- While mixture is chilling, combine yogurt/sour cream with 2 bulbs (squeezed out) of roasted garlic cloves, maple syrup and a sprinkle of salt and pepper in a blender or food processor. Process until smooth then set aside until ready to use.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add 2 tablespoons olive oil. Remove mixture from fridge and form into 4 equal patties, then place in the skillet once hot. Since the mixture can be wet and messy, do not move until they are fully cooked and golden on one side! This takes about 5-6 minutes. Then, add more oil if needed (this really helps cook them) and flip burgers very gently. Cook for another 5-6 minutes. Toast buns if desired.
- Assemble by topping burgers with roasted garlic cream and avocado! We also used caramelized red onion one night and it was delicious.
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I painfully added up the nutrition for this recipe for those who asked. I really liked the recipe and wanted to make sure it’s something healthy to add into my routine. A few things on my nutrition and recipe that I used that shouldn’t really impact your results much: 1) I used regular bread crumbs instead Panko, 2) I used butter beans instead of Cannellini beans, 3) I used whole wheat flour instead of oat flour, 4) I used the 80 calorie whole wheat buns (you may need to adjust if you use different buns), 5) I used light sour cream when you could chose sour cream/Greek yogurt. Everything else I followed exactly as she said. So here’s the nutrition for the entire recipe (note: this makes four burgers which includes 4 buns and all ingredients noted in the recipe above). Below that is the nutrition for one serving (1 burger). I tried to use reliable sources and most of them came up from the nutrition Google provides on the side of your search.
Total Recipe:
Calories: 1829
Fat (g): 75
Saturated Fat: 16
Polyunsaturated Fat: 9
Monounsaturated Fat: 42
Cholesterol: 214
Sodium: 3879
Potassium: 2992
Carbs: 261
Dietary Fiber: 52
Sugar: 71
Protein: 54
Vitamin A: 1438%
Vitamin C: 156%
Calcium: 75%
Iron: 77%
Per Serving (1 burger)
Calories: 457
Fat (g): 19
Saturated Fat: 4
Polyunsaturated Fat: 2
Monounsaturated Fat: 11
Cholesterol: 54
Sodium: 970
Potassium: 748
Carbs: 65
Dietary Fiber: 13
Sugar: 18
Protein: 13
Vitamin A: 360%
Vitamin C: 39%
Calcium: 19%
Iron: 19%
I haven’t calculated the nutritional values of this recipe yet. However, I’m sure the values you just posted are incorrect. You should check that you entered the right amounts into the calculator :)
I ran the recipe through MyFitnessPal and used AP flour instead of oat flour and came up with about 500 calories a serving.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/view/124663183077053
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i really enjoyed these. I did not have smoked paprika so I used Hungarian Paprika and regular paprika. My husband as always said more heat! He loves hot food. So I will add a little more Hungarian Paprika to the rest of the batch. Thanks so much for posting, we could eat them all of the time and roasted garlic sauce was amazing!
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I am laughing so hard right now. I just discovered your recipes and writing and I am equally infatuated with them both!
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I tried this. It was good. Just needs a little crunch to it. Maybe add a couple pieces of round panchetta and bib lettuce. Maybe add sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds.
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Really outstanding recipe. I found smoked paprika in three “heats” in the store – sweet, medium and hot – got sweet because it sounded good for future use – but also got hot and used it here. So wonderful. That cream sauce was so good I just wanted to eat it with a spoon! A question though – does that roasted garlic freeze well? It would be nice to keep my leftovers for use later when I don’t have my act together to begin with that step.
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I made these once before and I really enjoyed them. I’m adding them to meal plan and wanted to know your thoughts on baking instead of frying them? It’s not a health issue…more of my kids refuse to stop clinging to my legs while I’m in the kitchen issue.
I’m thinking a high temperature and spraying the tops of the patties with a bit of oil, flipping and repeating.
I just tried this recipe. I liked it, but wonder how I could make the inside less soft. Suggestions much appreciated!
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I haven’t tried the actual burger, but after making the sauce I was disappointed. Way too much garlic and didn’t taste very good over-all.
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Oh my lanta … Someone hold me! Guys, these burgers. Can’t even hang. SO GOOD! I didn’t make the sauce (didn’t have enough garlic), but did everything else. I mean, seriously. Yum.
Im trying this recipe tonight! I’m going to use edemame instead of white beans. And good call on the carmelized onions. I will be adding that to my grocery list.
I’m excited!
Hi-My daughter and I made these burgers last night and everyone loved them including the meat lovers in our family. My daughter is going to college in fall and wants to learn some vegetarian recipes. She found this one on Pinterest! Thanks for the recipe. We will make it again. The sauce was yummy too. PS Someone asked how to make them more cooked in the middle; I do not consider myself a very knowledgable cook, but what I did seemed to work-After cooking on both sides, I turned off stove and put a lid on the skillet and let the burgers cook a bit more and that seemed to make a difference. I think the trick is to get it “crisp-ish” on that outside and golden on outside first and then try to cook it a bit more on low with lid.
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Made these tonight! Absolutely loved them. We have an abundance of sweet potato potatoes right now so I also made sweet potato fries to go with. Yuuum. I made 8 perfectly sized patties out of our mix. I baked them at 350 for 20 minutes, flipped, and baked for another 8 minutes. Then heated 1/2T avocado oil in a pan and pan fried them all at once to get a nice crisp on them. So delicious! Baking them first really helped them cook all the way through and be more of a burger than a mushy patty. Loved these, thanks!
Thanks so much for this blog. I just now wandered onto this. It is great. This recipe looks amazing to me. I can’t wait to try it. Don’t pay any attention to negivity. Life is way too short for that.
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I found your recipe and made this last night. They were SO GOOD! The flavors just all went so well together. My husband even enjoyed them. I can’t wait to make them again. I added a little cayenne pepper in the mix and fresh chives (from my garden) in the sauce and it tasted great!
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I just found you through Huffpost food. I was led to your sweet potato burgers and I think we could be best friends! You sound adorable, I love that sweet James Taylor too and I watch way too much tv. Looking forward to trying these burgers, thanks, and will enjoy following your adventures.
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Just made these for dinner. Delicious!!! Kids loved them too. Will definitely make again.
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