Make a meal everyone will love with a top-your-own-burger station and 7 deliciously fun and healthy veggie burger topping combos.Finding a healthy meal that will make every member of the family happy can feel like a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be this way—and you don’t have to become a short-order cook to please everyone, either. Instead, take simple meals everyone loves and find ways to make them healthier. Believe it or not, burgers are a picky-eater-pleasing way to pack in extra nutrition! Don’t stop at swapping in a veggie burger patty that adds some sneaky greens. Put out a pile of the best plant-based burger toppings, grab a Silver Hills Bakery Organic Sprouted Hamburger Bun, and let everybody put together their own perfect combo!
6 – 8 plant-based burger patties(use your favourite store-bought or homemade veggie burger patty (we used Field Roast for these photos, but check out some of our favourite recipes to DIY!)
For the healthy plant-based burger toppings (amounts as desired):
tomato, sliced
pickles
vegan kimchi
carrot, grated or spiralized
onion(sweet or red), thinly sliced or diced
celery, finely chopped
vegan cheddar-style cheese slices(or your favourite plant-based cheese)
mushrooms(button, crimini or portobello), sliced and sautéed
pineapple, cut into rings (grilled if desired)
spicy vegan mayo
guacamole
hummus(homemade or store-bought)
ketchup
mustard(classic yellow, Dijon, or grainy—it's up to you!)
Instructions
Prepare plant-based burger toppings of your choice, and set up a simple station for your family to top their burgers as they like.
Grill your plant-based burger patties for 3 – 5 minutes per side, depending on the thickness of the patty if store-bought (or cook according to the instructions for your favourite homemade veggie burger recipe!)
Toast your sprouted burger buns if desired.
Add buns and cooked veggie burger patties to the topping station, set your family loose to dress theirs up, and enjoy the deliciously messy chaos! (Put out extra napkins!)
Tips
- You don’t need to splash out on an expensive spiralizer to find out if carrot noodles make mealtime magic for your child. Test it with a cheap and cheerful handheld version, borrow from a friend, or look for a lightly-used one before investing in pricier models.- Have a spiralizer already? Let your kids pick the perfect carrot in the produce section and turn the crank—the I-did-it-all-by-myself principle can help encourage kids to try foods that are suspicious otherwise. (Finely spiralized beets are surprisingly sweet (and well worth the momentary magenta fingers and faces!))