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Grilled Portobello Burgers Recipe for Memorial Day
With Memorial Day Weekend on the horizon and barbecues to attend–or host–what’s a vegetarian to do?
This is the quickest and easiest way to make a healthful veggie burger that we’ve ever run across. Portobello mushrooms are just the right size for burger rolls, they grill up beautifully, and their meaty texture and rich taste will have everyone asking for seconds.
This recipe includes some great, unusual topping ideas to make your cookout really special. And if you don’t feel like grilling, the recipe works just fine in a pan on the stove. Create your own quick and easy signature burger!
INGREDIENTS
4 large Portobello mushrooms, stems removed
1/2 cup tomato-based barbecue sauce or olive oil mixed with 1 crushed garlic clove and 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
Salt and freshly-ground black pepper to taste
4 whole-wheat rolls, halved
Optional toppings:
Grilled onion slices
Lettuce leaves and sliced tomato
Bleu cheese and chopped walnuts
Cajun hot sauce
Fresh minced herbs
Pesto mayonnaise and sunflower seeds
Guacamole or salsa and sour cream
Sliced avocado, chopped raw onion, sprouts
Chopped mushroom stems sautéed in butter or olive oil with garlic and fresh herbs
Shredded cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese, minced jalapeno peppers
1. Prepare a medium fire in the grill.
2. Brush the mushroom caps with olive oil or barbecue sauce.
3. Grill mushrooms (and onion slices, if you like them), turning occasionally until tender and grill-marked, about 10 minutes. Grill the rolls until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes on each side.
4. To assemble the sandwiches, lightly brush the cut side of the toasted rolls with the remaining olive oil or barbecue sauce. Add Portobello burgers and desired toppings.
5. If pan-frying the mushrooms, simply cook in a little olive oil over medium heat until tender, turning occasionally.
Serves 4.
Adapted from The Vegetarian Grill by Andrea Chesman (Harvard Common Press, 1998).
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add your comment »Sounds absolutely awesome! Must try it out today. :)
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yummy... those sound great! Thanks Annie!
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Brother Bernardine, perhaps you should TRY the recipe before you speak about it.
I tried this recipe last night myself, both grilling and broiling, and neither process caused me to eat a "leathery dried up old mushroom". Quite the contrary, the mushrooms were very juicy and tasty with raw onions and melted swiss cheese on a whole wheat bun. The best mushroom and swiss "burger" I have ever eaten!
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Correction on my own part, Portobello.
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Portabello's are so good anyway, and that just sounds so delicious. My husband and I are always looking for new ways to cook veggies. We also love avacado sandwiches. A must try. And as far as eating or not eating meat, to each his own.
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Very nice recipe... I love portobello and the idea of Dirk Bakken it's REALLY GOOD!!!
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GO VEGETARIAN!!!!
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How come that a recipe become an argument including the christian god and all that stuff?...
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I'm shocked by the last response with the "I believe" "I think" followed by insults.
All this over factory farmed flesh filled with hormones from animals whose lives consisted of nothing but misery and ended violently.
Mr. Parker I applaud your post.
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Mr Parker,
you shouldn't be forcing your OWN views of anything on anybody else because it's disrespectful. You can believe what you want, give the same gift to others and don't lecture or judge anybody just because YOU think their opinion is wrong. If you call knowledge corruption and perversion of sin, then I can't agree with you at all and you might be confused yourself. I don't agree with this concept: "We all are sinful because someone in the past did something wrong or committed a sin." I believe we all are born innocent and pure and I believe knowledge is good, but can be abused, just like every good thing. But I deeply disagree with "wanting to know more is a sin" because only this desire to know more leads great men to discover great things.
Your comment sounded arrogant, like you think you are better than some other people, and these ideas of feeling like a better person than another group of people always led only to bad things, so stop and think about yourself and your opinions first. There's a difference between believing and forcing your beliefs on others.
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