No longer just a side dish, it’s time for rice to take centre stage on your plate. Start with these rice and red kidney bean burgers!

SERVES 6 // COOKING TIME 15 min

INGREDIENTS
For the rice and red kidney bean burgers
1 tin red kidney beans, drained
¾ cup cooked brown rice
½ cup breadcrumbs
2 celery sticks, roughly chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 egg
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp paprika
Salt and pepper
For the cucumber-garlic yoghurt
1 cup yoghurt
½ cucumber, grated and drained
1 garlic clove, crushed
To serve
6 seeded brown rolls, halved and toasted
Handful baby spinach
2 carrots, ribboned
½ red cabbage, thinly sliced

METHOD
For the rice and red kidney bean burgers
1. Pulse all the ingredients together in a food processor until well combined.
2. Shape the mixture into 2 cm-thick patties. Rest on a baking tray
For the cucumber-garlic yoghurt
1. Combine all the ingredients and set aside.
2. Preheat a pan with olive or coconut oil. Once hot, add your patties and gently fry for 10–12 minutes until heated through.
To serve
1. Toast your bread rolls. Spread on the yoghurt, then top with a burger patty, baby spinach, carrot ribbons and red cabbage.

Recipe & styling: Leila-Ann Mokotedi
Photography: Samantha Pinto // HMimages.co.za

The best part about rice? There are so many different kinds you can use and all with varying benefits. We used basmati rice for this whole roast butternut with vegetarian stuffing.

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Do you love Thai food? Then you have to try our Massaman butternut burgers. Perfect for vegetarians, it lives up to its name and is packed with peanuts and spices key to Middle Eastern cuisine.

MAKES 4 // COOKING TIME 40 min

INGREDIENTS
2 cups peeled, diced butternut (±1 medium butternut)
1 tbsp olive oil, plus to fry
2 onions, peeled and chopped
Zest and juice of 1 lime
1 stalk lemongrass, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled and chopped
2 tsp ginger, peeled and grated
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp ground coriander
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp ground cumin
½ tsp cinnamon
Pinch cayenne pepper
Pinch nutmeg
Pinch ground cloves
Pinch ground cardamom
400g tin butter beans, drained and blended
375 ml panko crumbs
90 g unsalted peanuts, roasted
1 egg
4 burger buns
Basil, to garnish
Chilli, to garnish

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 200°C.
2. Place butternut on a baking tray. Drizzle with 1 tbsp olive oil and toss. Bake for 20 minutes, shaking halfway through.
3. Blend the next 14 ingredients (from onion to cardamom) into a paste.
4. Add the butter beans, panko crumbs, peanuts, egg and roast butternut. Blend the mixture until it is combined.
5. Divide the mixture into 4 balls and shape into patties.
6. Heat the oil in a pan. Fry the patties one at a time, flipping so that both sides are golden brown.
7. Serve the patties on burger buns, garnished with fresh basil and chilli.

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Whether you’re looking for a great veggie burger option or are just keen to try something new, our black bean burgers should be at the top of your list. We made the patties from black beans because their rich, earthy flavour mimics that of meat. If you can’t find any, red kidney beans will also do the trick!

SERVES 4 // COOKING TIME 40 min

INGREDIENTS
For the patties
2 × 400g tin black beans
2 cups breadcrumbs
1 onion, peeled and chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
1 egg
2 tbsp chopped coriander
Salt and pepper
Chilli, chopped, to taste
Olive oil, to fry
For the salsa
200g mixed cherry tomatoes, chopped
½ red onion, peeled and chopped
1 avocado, peeled
½ cup sour cream
Juice of 1 lime
4 hamburger rolls, to serve

METHOD
1. Crush the beans with a fork. Combine with breadcrumbs, onion, garlic, egg, coriander,  salt, pepper and chilli.
2. Shape into 4 patties. Place in the fridge for 20 minutes.
3. Heat oil over medium heat and fry patties for 8 minutes on both sides.
4. To make the salsa, combine the tomatoes and red onion.
5. Mash the avo and mix it with sour cream and lime juice. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Serve the bean burgers on rolls, with salsa and avo cream.

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