Just because you are a vegetarian doesn’t mean that you should skip eating burgers. Thanks to a wide variety of meatless burger patties out there, burgers can remain a part of your diet. Below you will come across a recipe for making vegetarian burger patties out of coconut meat and a few other ingredients.

It’s common knowledge among vegetarians that most faux meat products do not come cheap. It is exactly because of this reason why so many vegetarians simply rush to the internet to look for articles or videos that teach them how to make some of the most delectable fake meat fares.

Making your own meatless burger patties at home can certainly help keep the purse strings tight. Whipping them up from scratch is definitely a more pocket-friendly move than simply getting your hands on counterparts available at most supermarkets. Learning to make them, furthermore, helps broaden your vegetarian culinary experience.

Let’s check out the said recipe that yields around 10 vegetarian coconut meat burger patties:

Ingredients:

3 cups of shredded coconut meat

1/2 cup of silken tofu

1 medium-sized white onion (chopped)

1 small-sized red bell pepper (minced)

6 cloves of garlic (minced)

5 tablespoons of panko bread crumbs

4 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 tablespoons of coriander leaves (minced)

2 tablespoons of onion spring (chopped)

5 teaspoons of cornstarch

1 teaspoon of oregano powder

Sea salt (ground)

Black pepper (ground)

Olive oil

Directions:

-It’s important to remove as much coconut milk from shredded coconut milk to keep the resulting vegetarian burger patties from tasting a lot like coconut milk. To do this, place shredded coconut milk in a large mixing bowl and add water. Using your hands, squeeze coconut milk out of shredded coconut meat. Drain carefully. Add water again and repeat the procedure. Do everything for a third time. 

-Set up your steamer and get some water steaming. Steam shredded coconut meat for about 15 minutes. Afterwards, carefully transfer shredded coconut meat to a large tray and allow it to cool completely. 

-Once cool, grab a large mixing bowl. Combine shredded coconut meat, silken tofu, white onion, garlic, red bell pepper, coriander leaves, onion spring, oregano powder, panko bread crumbs and soy sauce. Add a little sea salt and ground black pepper, too. Using a large wooden spoon, mix all of the ingredients very well. 

-While still mixing shredded coconut meat mixture, sprinkle cornstarch little by little into it. Keep doing this until you come up with a really thick and sticky mixture. 

-Get a large tray and line it with wax paper. Scoop 4 to 5 tablespoons of the shredded coconut meat mixture and form into a ball using your hands. Place on the tray lined with wax paper and flatten. Repeat the steps until you have turned the entire shredded coconut meat mixture into burger patties. 

-Stash the tray in the refrigerator and allow the vegetarian burger patties to chill for 15 to 20 minutes. 

-In a frying pan, heat 3 to 4 tablespoons of olive oil over low heat. Start frying vegetarian burger patties. Cook each side for about 3 minutes or until already golden brown. 

-Transfer cooked vegetarian burger patties onto a serving plate that’s lined with a few pieces of paper towel to remove excess olive oil. 

-Serve vegetarian coconut burger meat burger patties as you please.

Don’t forget to repost this super easy recipe on your various social media sites to let your vegetarian family members and friends know how to make delectable burger patties using shredded coconut meat!