This is a super Healthy Veggie Burger. My today’s recipe of Chickpea,Soya chunks and Halloumi burger will give Mac Donald a run for his money…(Wait did I overdo it or rather should I be vain) Well…pause….You cook and let me know 🙂 You have already met my sister in my previous posts Lingomberry Douffin.Its time to throw some light on my dad….he is exactly like a chocolate truffle…soft and gooey inside and hard on the outside….Hail Hitler…oops…pardon me my humor Dad…I need it for my blogging ! 🙂 
The story today dates back to the time when mighty burger came to our small town and the world became a happier place.God save the soul who opened that eat out..it was called “Grubbs” I really don’t know what it means but it meant happiness to me in those days.They came up with mini microwaved pizzas,ice cream floats and of course the drool worthy burgers. Once a month my dad used to take us to the shopping center to buy stuff budgeted for that month.Yes Lord…it was not like today’s modern day shopping mall sanctuary where we satiate our hunger for shopping (As I call it the Modern day Urban culture temple where merchandise is the name of the goddess).Going back to our monthly shopping expeditions….as I would realize that our shopping list is about to get over….my actual motive would start creating a flutter in my heart.I am already dreamy eyed thinking about the Grubbs burger only one of its kind in the town…tasty,succulent,smothered,lip-smacking too many adjectives but you know what I mean right! 
In between burger and me stood the great barrier reef my dad.Yes dad is that kind of a person who loves food too otherwise how on earth could I have it in my genes.But the preachy parenting gospel teaches them to model self control so that the children can build a wall of self control.Such a lengthy,non-glamorous and self crucifying process and I am not complaining as after these many years I have colored my self too….remember I have an urchin too…sigh! 
I always believed that humor is a type of persuasion. Persuasion is like a maze where you need to keep trying new ways till you find the way out.Mind it you need to always be your jovial self or else you lose your focus. Here’s how my game looks like: Dad is like a Tangent Maze: You start outside the Maze at the bottom, and your goal is to reach “Grubbs” at the center. Persuasion has no dead ends in it, and is a purely multiply connected, where all ways are connected with each other in ways designed to run you around in circles instead of block your way.
- Me: “Dad I am hungry”
- Dad: “we will eat at home”.
Quickly choose a new way
- Me: “Home is too far with little voice modulation”
- Dad : “Sit quiet and we will reach home in no time with a stern”
I swerve and take a new way
- Me: “Crocodile tears…Dad all my friends have eaten Burgers and still you haven’t given me”
- Dad:”Blasting….you just need an excuse to complain” I realize this is not going anywhere….I ask for wild card…tan tanaaaaa! Entry Wild card sister, I quietly promise her my new multicolored pen…and every house good or bad has a dark horse and a white horse…my sister is the white horse in our house….her persuasion is like touch of Midas.
- Sister:”Dad…just this time be benevolent to Sis…next time she wont ask for it….and looks at me…and I join in with a robotic swag…Yes dad next time I wont ask for it” It’s probably harder than it looks, where the traditional method of following what dad said once was written in stone is gone…. This act of persuasion is 100% hand made.
Oops….I think I am watching too much of Ridley scott and Christopher Nolan movies these days…cant imagine if I could have come up with a better metaphor. 
Quoting Harvard just like power, persuasion can be a force for enormous good in every sphere of life. It can pull people together, move ideas forward, galvanize change, and forge constructive solutions. To do all that, however, people must understand persuasion for what it is—not convincing and selling but learning and negotiating. Oh my my…shall we get back to persuading you to cook this wonderful healthy super burger which would give Mac Donald’s a run for his money.Trust me my family skipped there lunch the day I served this.My burger persuaded their tummy to satiate and gave me a free afternoon for some window shopping.
- 4 Sesame seed buns
- 150 gm Overnight soaked and boiled chickpeas
- 100 gm soya chunks
- 1 boiled potato for binding
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 150 gm Halloumi cut into slices
- finely shredded lettuce
- 1 Onion cut into rings
- 1 tomato cut into rings
- half fried egg is optional (only for egg-itarians)
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 green chilli finely minced (optional only if you prefer hot)
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 2 tbsp refined oil
- 1 tbsp gram flour
- Grind the boiled chick peas in a processor.
- Soak the soya chunks in warm water for 10 minutes.Then squeeze the soya chunks to remove the excess water.Then lightly mash the chunks with hands.
- In a heavy bottomed pan add 1 tbsp of oil.Add the ginger garlic paste and green chilli and saute for 2 mins.
- Then add the soya mash quickly followed by cumin powder and red chili powder.
- After frying the soya and spice mix for few minutes add your chick pea mash.
- Followed by seasoning of salt and pepper.Fry for another 2 mins.
- Remove from heat and allow it cool down.Squeeze the lemon juice and mash the boiled potato into the above mixture.Shape it into burger patties.Then lightly sprinkle gram flour on them to prevent breakage and add a subtle crisp covering.
- Heat the flat/girdle pan and add 1 tbsp of oil .Now very carefully shallow fry your patties on both the sides and set it aside.(In case patties are prone to breakage you could add another potato)
- In the same pan grill your halloumi for 10 seconds on both sides and set aside.
- Finally its time to layer your burger.Take the sesame buns and divide it into two halves.
- Layer 1: Lettuce
- Layer 2: Soya chunk and chickpea patty
- Layer 3: Tomato
- Layer 4: Onion rings
- Layer 5: Halloumi
- Layer 6: Fried egg (only for carnivores like me)
- Layer 7:Crown bun
