Description: Such a healthy, nutritious dish. Good for an appetiser, side dish, main or even canapé. It goes really well with rice. This is one of the best ways to eat vegetables ! Not necessary to think about eating greens all the time, this dish contains a good amount of vegetables too ! In addition, what a healthy burger without buns !
Serves: 3
Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• Lotus Roots – chopped in 3mm thick, 200g (I had 16 slices to make 8 pieces of sandwiches)
• Beef mincemeat (10%) – 200g
• Carrot – chopped in small pieces, 40 g
• Green Pepper – chopped in small pieces, 50g
• Garlic – chopped in small pieces, 2 cloves
• Potato flour or wheat flour – 1 tablespoon
• Soy sauce – ⅔ tablespoon
• Ground black Pepper – ½ teaspoon
• Sesame oil (optional) – 1 teaspoon

Method

1. In a large bowl, mince meat, garlic, carrot, green pepper, soy sauce, sesame oil and black pepper. Mix well until it becomes smooth.
2. Divide them into 8 meatballs.
3. Spread some flour on the lotus root’s surface that will be adjacent to the meat, then sandwich the meatball.
4. Put these sandwiches on a non-stick frying pan with medium heat. When the bottom of lotus root becomes brown, turn them over using a tong or a spatula. Add 100 mL of water and close the lid so that it can be steamed grilled until it completely cooked (about 5 minutes).

To serve: Ground black pepper

Nutritional Values Per Serving

Kcal	Protein	Fat	Carbs	Fibre	Sugars	Salt	Saturated Fat	Zinc	Vitamin B6	Vitamin B12
205.3	16.0g	8.3g	17.1g	4.3g	1.2g	0.7g	2.9g	3.6mg	0.5mg	1.5μg
10.3%	32.0%	11.9%	6.6%	14.2%	1.3%	11.6%	14.4%	51.2%	44.0%	98.2%

Nutritional Tips

This dish is a really healthy, nutritious dish and one of my favourite. This can be a good appetiser, side dish, main or even canapé. It contains protein, fat, carbs, essential vitamins and minerals. This is one of the healthiest bunless burgers I can think of ! This dish goes really well with rice. This is a great way to eat vegetables and achieve a balanced diet.

Eating greens is not the only way to eat vegetables. Lotus roots contain essential vitamins and minerals. They are especially rich in potassium, and vitamin C and a good source of fibre. They are also low in sugar, and fat and moderately low calories for a vegetable (74 kcal per 100g). This dish contains one of your 5 A Day and a good amount of vegetables too ! As I suggested, it goes really well with rice. But without rice or other types of carbs, you would still have some carb intake from the dish itself.

You may use lower fat content beef mince to further cut down calories and fat. For cooking/display tips, if it does not stand well, you may use toothpicks to fix the sandwiches.