Mushroom pesto burgers

If your kids are burger-crazy, then these vegetarian mushroom pesto burgers need to be at the top of your meal-planning list! Super healthy and jam-packed full of gorgeous Mediterranean flavours, the whole fam will love biting into these burgers.

Ingredients

  • olive oil spray

  • 600g Portobello mushrooms

    8 medium

  • 2 tsp garlic powder

  • 4 ciabatta rolls

  • 40g baby spinach leaves

    washed and dried

  • 160g oven-roasted capsicum

    1 jar

  • ¼ cup pesto

  • 40g fetta

    crumbled

Equipment

  • 1 frying pan

Instructions

  1. Heat a medium size, non-stick frying pan and spray lightly with olive oil.
  2. Spray mushrooms with a light coat of oil and add to the frying pan.
  3. Sprinkle with garlic powder and cook for 4 minutes on each side, or until mushrooms are soft and fragrant.
  4. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper.
  5. Slice rolls in half and spray lightly with oil.
  6. Divide spinach equally among rolls, place 2 mushrooms on each roll and top with capsicum, pesto and fetta.

Notes

Tip
These burgers are really filling, most young kids will probably only be able to eat half each.
Tip
If you don’t like capsicum, pesto or feta, you can experiment with other toppings, like olives or roasted tomatoes.

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