Syn free burger and chips

Technically this isn’t a recipe, it’s a meal suggestion but when I came to make this I realized that I had no idea how to make the ‘bun’.  Clearly I know to get two mushrooms but there’s loads of different suggestions online including leaving or removing the gills so I thought I’d put this down to make it all clear.

Syn free burger and chips with mushroom bun

You can make your own burgers from scratch but it was hot and I’d been at work all day so I used Slimming World chimichanga burgers which were surprisingly good!

This is how I made the syn free mushroom bun burger meal

Ingredients

4 large portobello mushrooms

Fry lite

2 syn free burgers

Red onion

Potatoes

Salad

Cheese (part HEA)

Method:

Cut potatoes and put in air frier, lots of fry lite at this stage and close the lid.  You will reapply later but for now cook them for 10 minutes

Chop red onions and put in a pan with fry light, you’ll cook these towards the end so the onion is caramalised but hot still

Twist the stalks off your portobello mushrooms.  Do not remove the gills.  Place them gill side UP on the baking tray and spray with fry lite

 

Pop the oven on to pre heat

Pop your burgers in a large frying pan, or on the BBQ if that’s how you’re doing them

That should have taken you about 10 minutes so it’s time to check the chips.  Give them another really good covering of fry lite at this stage as you’re going for as crispy as possible which mean fry lite and hot inside, so not too much lid opening!  They will good for another 12 minutes now

Put your mushrooms in the pre heated oven.  They will take about 10 minutes to cook

Turn on the heat under your onions and stir occasionally as needed

Watch the burgers, turning to cook thoroughly

Get the cheese ready, whatever you fancy, just please check your HEA

Now put salad on the plates, all this time keep checking that your onions have enough frylite and your burgers are ok

You’re now ready to assemble but before you do open the air frier and give the chips a quick mist of frylite and a shake of chip or grind over some sea salt it stops them being bland and also the seasoning will only be cooked for a couple of minutes so won’t burn.  You can add fresh rosemary as well here if you like, it’s perfect for rosemary and sea salt fries

Mushrooms out of the oven, they will have shrunk and water cooked out but don’t worry, that’s usual

Layer a mushroom, burger, cheese, onions and top with the second mushroom

Add the chips straight from the frier so they’re piping hot et voila.  You’re all set with a syn free burger and chips!

**There are syns in tomato ketchup but I didn’t have any 😊