Meatless Supper Club week 8: Corn fritter hamburgers

The last week of EnviroMom’s Meatless Supper Club has come around so fast!  It’s been wonderful to be part of something which so closely reflects our values at MiniMonos -- demonstrating our care for the environment, swapping ideas with like-minded parents and involving kids in a way that’s fun!  A big thanks again to Renee and Heather from EnviroMom for inviting us to be involved.

Tonight I was supposed to make tofu burgers.  Except that half an hour before I made them I realised the tofu was supposed to have marinated overnight in some yummy concoction. Oops. So my  husband (bless him) decided to experiment with corn fritter hamburgers instead.

I don’t want to make my fellow Meatless Supper Clubbers jealous…but I’m going to.  It’s nearly summer here, down-under. So although we didn’t slap a prawn on the barbie, we did cook the onions, eggs, and fritters on the barbeque. It was lovely cooking outside. Sorry.

The building materials:
Corn fritters:
¾ cup plain flour
1tsp baking powder
1tsp sugar or runny honey
1 large or 2 small eggs
1 tin creamed corn
salt/pepper

Put all dry ingredients into bowl. Add the corn and eggs and mix. If using honey, add it now -- the mixture should be quite thick.  Heat oil and add spoonfuls of mixture into a pan or on the grill, frying until bubbles form or until golden, then flip.

In addition to the corn fritters, we used spinach and cashew pesto (yum), avocado, fried onion, lettuce, tomato and fried eggs (free range, with lovely, runny yolks). 

The construction:
Assemble the burgers the way you like them! 

Here's the 7-year old version:

The verdict:
It was fast, fun and involved the whole family. I actually preferred this vegetarian version to ground beef hamburgers and it got the “Yep, we’ll have that again” from the boys.

We've decided that we enjoyed the Meatless Supper Club so much that we’re going to continue constructing veggie meals each week! I’ll also keep blogging about the outcome, which means that Heather and Renee’s mission was accomplished in at least this household: One meatless meal a week, one family at a time. Yep, we’ll have that again.

Comments

[greeen sheeep]

Ooh, that burger looks delicious! I have been searching for a meatless burger alternative. We will definitely have to try this.

Good luck on your meatless ventures! Glad to hear you are continuing on.

[Andrea Deely]

Thanks! We're having a lot of fun -- our meatless recipe ideas come from the whole MiniMonos team and my family cooks and eats them! Many of their dishes turn out quite differently than they intended! :-)

Love your blog about your own foray into Meatless Mondays! http://greeensheeep.blogspot.com/2009/11/meatless-monday.html

Looking forward to following your culinary adventures and would love to swap recipes!