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Homemade Vegetarian Burgers Extra Delicious

Hello Everybody,

I prepared burgers for dinner two weeks ago, as you may have seen on my Instagram account. I finished my last exam on Wednesday, which had to be celebrated! So my best friend came over and we made delicious burgers. I bought vegetarian burgers from a store near Oberstdorf (Germany), as I prefer to eat less meat. If you prefer meat, you can use minced meat, if you want to. But if you are open to something new, I can definitely recommend vegetarian substitutes, they usually taste great. The burgers I bought fell apart while being roasted, but at least they tasted splendid.

Homemade Vegetarian Burgers à la Eileen

Ingredients

  • 8 Vegetarian Burgers
  • 8 Buns (I used fresh Laugenbrötchen and Körnerbrötchen from the bakery)
  • 1 Roman Salad
  • 3 Tomatoes
  • 1 big Onion
  • 1 Cucumber
  • Spicy Burger Sauce
  • 3 Buffalo Mozzarella
  • 2 Avocados
  • 1 Lime
  • 3 Garlic Cloves
  • Salt, Pepper, and Coriander

First, you start by preparing all vegetables. Wash the salad, tomatoes, and cucumber. Then cut everything, including the onion, into small pieces or slides. Place them in small bowls on the table.

To prepare the guacamole, you crush the two avocados and add salt, pepper, coriander, and a bit of lime. Cut the garlic cloves and crush them with the knife, before you add them to the mixture and stir everything. You can prepare the guacamole sooner so that it has time to steep.

The last steps are cutting the mozzarella, halving the buns, and placing everything on the table. Then you just have to roast the burgers and start putting your burger together.

The guacamole tasted great on the burger, while the buffalo mozzarella really makes a difference. My best friend ate buffalo burgers at a street food festival in Kempten last year, which were the best burgers we have ever eaten. That’s where the idea is from. Concerning the guacamole, everything tastes better with avocado, doesn’t it?

I hope you enjoy the recipe as much as we enjoyed the burgers. If you want to be notified when there is a new post, please follow me on Instagram or Twitter. Have a wonderful weekend!

Love, Eileen

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Yummy, Healthy Wraps as better FastFood


Hello Guys,

as I studied for my exams every day for the last month, I was not able to write a blog post. Today I wrote my third exam. Next week I will write my last two exams, then there is only my master’s thesis left, which I will start in March! Today, I thought I should write again. It was just too long since the last time. So, did you ever make wraps before? I am sure many of you have. I for a fact did not until more than one month ago. I saw tortillas in the store and thought, why not. It was so delicious! It is easy, quickly done, very healthy, and you can vary the wraps as you like. You find the recipe of how I made the wraps below. Enjoy!

Vegetarian Wraps (4 big portions)

Ingredients

  • 3 carrots
  • 3 zucchinis
  • 2 onions
  • 100g mushrooms
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 salad
  • 2 avocado
  • Vegetarian kebab/chicken
  • Tortilla Wraps (linseed, whole grain)
  • Olive oil
  • Salsa sauce
  • Tsatsiki

First, you need to wash all the vegetables. Then you cut everything into slices. Put the onions, cucumber, salad, and carrots into separate bowls. Now, put the mushroom and zucchinis into a pan, add some olive oil, and roast everything. While the vegetables cook, roast the vegetarian chicken or kebab, or whatever you like, in another pan. When the vegetables and the “meat” are finished, put them in separate bowls, too.

Now, you can put everything on the table and start rolling your wraps. You just need to put the tortilla wraps into the micro oven for a minute, then you add everything in the middle of your tortilla. Fold three sides. Now enjoy! I only added Tsatsiki, which I found very delicious. My friends also put Salsa sauce on the wraps. Do whatever you like.

Concerning the “fake meat”, I tried the chicken meat made out of soya from Aldi. I liked it very much, so I can recommend it.

I hope you like the recipe and feel inspired to try it out by yourself. It is very easy, very tasty, and even healthy. I made them with my friends. It was a very convenient dish to prepare quickly and eat together. Definitely less effort than, for example, raclette, much healthier and at least as delicious! Have fun trying it out.

Love, Eileen

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Delicious Winter Noodles-Vegetable-Minced-Meat Gratin for the Great Hunger


Hello Guys,

two weeks ago I tried something new, which ended in a new recipe. Therefore, here is my first official recipe with meat. Actually, I usually cook vegan and vegetarian, but this time I made an exception. It was in any case sooo delicious, which is why I share it with you today.

Noodles-Vegetable-Minced-Meat Gratin (4 big portions)

Preparation time: around 1 hour ; Baking time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • 200g of mushroom
  • 3 carrots
  • 1 zucchini
  • 1 butternut squash
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 1 big onion
  • Olive oil
  • 3 tbsp of tomato paste
  • 400ml of tomato sauce/tomato purée
  • 40g of mozzarella
  • 400g of organic minced meat
  • Salt, pepper, oregano, hot pepper powder
  • 300g of chickpea noodles
  • 100g of spelt tagliatelle

First, you need to wash all the vegetables (zucchini, carrots, butternut squash). Then cut the carrots and zucchini into thin slices. Halve the pumpkin, remove the seeds and cut it into small squares. Now clean the mushrooms and cut them into slices. Gather all the vegetables in a bowl.

Peel the onion and cut it into small pieces. Peel the garlic, chop it very finely and crush it with the blade of a knife. Add olive oil (about 3 tbsp) with the onion to a pan. Do not add the garlic yet! When the onion is transparent, add the vegetables. Cook the vegetables for about 10 minutes while stirring.

While the vegetables are simmering, put the pasta in a pot with enough salted water (both types of pasta together) and cook them for between 6 and 8 minutes. When the pasta is al dente, drain the water and put them in a large baking dish.

When most of the vegetables are cooked through (the squash and carrots will still be a little tough), add the ground beef and stir until browned and crumbly. Stir in the tomato paste, garlic, and spices. Now add the tomato purée and cook everything again for about 5 minutes. In total, from the onion until it is cooked, it takes about 20 minutes.

While the vegetable and minced meat mixture is still cooking in the pan, you can already cut the mozzarella into thin slices. Add the mixture to the pasta in the baking dish and mix everything. Spread the mozzarella on top and bake the gratin at 200°C with top and bottom heat on the middle shelf for about 25 minutes.

Serve with basil and enjoy.

I found it really delicious. Through the vegetable noodles, it is not quite so unhealthy, the mixture with the tagliatelle makes it not too healthy. 😉 Takes a bit in preparation, but is not difficult and is enough for four people. And we always eat a lot. 😉 Have fun trying it out, hope you like it as much as we do.

Love, Eileen