Here's a veggie burger recipe that is fun and interesting to make, and makes veggie burgers that are much better than any you can buy in a grocery store imho.
I credit the country life vegetarian cookbook, edited by Diana J. Fleming for this recipe - I just substituted soy flour for walnuts. For gluten flour I use Bob's Red Mill Vital Wheat Gluten Flour which you can find at most grocery stores around here. I also use their soy flour. (Conflict of interest disclosure - Bob's Red Mill has their world headquarters across from where I went to high school). I use yeast flakes from Whole Foods Grocery store (I forget the brand name). I use low sodium soy sauce and leave out the salt. You could use oat flour if you can find it which is a lot easier than blending oats in the blender.
1 tsp onion powder
0.5 tsp garlic powder
0.25 cup rolled oats
0.25 cup yeast flakes
1.5 cups soy flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 cups gluten flour
2 cups cold water
blend oats on high in blender until like flour
add to other dry ingredients in large bowl
add cold water
knead quickly
roll into 3 inch diameter log
cut into 0.75 inch thick slices
drop slices in broth and boil 1 to 2 hours
BROTH
10 cups water
1/3 cup soy sauce unfermented
1.25 tsp salt
0.25 tsp sage powder
1.75 tsp thyme
1.25 tsp oregano
2.5 cups sliced onions
Here's the nutrition numbers from summing the ingredients, as compared with Ham since that's what I found quickly online to compare it with. Note it is much lower in both fat and saturated fat, and has twice the fiber and slightly more protien. It has higher carbs, but that's in place of the fat, and it's mostly the good kind (100% whole wheat for instance instead of bleached flour). By having both grain (wheat) and bean (soy) protiens you should get all the amino acids required for complete protien, though I'm not sure of the relative quantities (where do you find such information?)
Comparison total fat sat fat total carb fiber sugars protein
Veggie burgers 17.13% 2.31% 37.53% 6.01% 1.98% 45.35%
Regular Ham 48.60% 16.76% 9.68% 3.35% 41.71%
(Numbers are percent of calories from nutrient with respect to total calories).
Submitted by Ray L. Morton-Ewbank