If you're a vegetarian or just looking to cut down on your meat intake, these grated courgette burgers are a perfect option to serve at your next summer BBQ.
The burgers are made with grated courgette, shallot, fresh ginger, green chilli and wholegrain mustard.
This recipe is super speedy, only requiring 15 minutes in total, so makes a perfect midweek meal option for a lighter dinner option.
Squeeze out as much liquid as you can from 1 medium grated courgette. Put courgette into a bowl with 1 finely chopped shallot, 1tsp each grated fresh root ginger, finely chopped green chilli and wholegrain mustard, 1 medium egg, 50g fresh white breadcrumbs and 2tbsp roughly chopped fresh coriander. Mix well, season and shape into two patties.
Step 2
Heat 1tbsp vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry patties for 5min, turning once, until golden and crisp.
Step 3
Serve in toasted burger buns with lettuce.
Per Serving:
Calories: 224
Total carbs: 22 g
Sugars: 3 g
Total fat: 12 g
Saturated fat: 2 g
50+ delicious and fresh courgette recipes to try now
An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).
