Last night's dinner was born out of the fact that we ran out of fresh alternatives of chicken or fish, our usual staples to have for dinner with salad. Since I felt lazy, it's the weekend after all, I didn't feel like going shopping, I started checking our pantry for something, for an inspiration.

And inspiration struck in the form of: Garbanzo beans, also known as chick peas. We love those little bundles of healthy protein. Add them to salad, roast and spice them, make them into a pate or hummus or a good ol' German pea soup, they are extremely versatile.

But what I had in mind was a protein main to be accompanied by a mixed greens salad with honey vinaigrette, hence I made veggie burgers.

Earlier in the day we had talked about potato pancakes or hashbrowns or rösti in Switzerland. Luckily I had some potatoes on hand, unlucky for me they were small which makes them harder to hold when grating them. Yet somehow I managed to not get any of my fingers into the mix.

And thus our two patties dinner with salad was created. I added a little roasted garlic aioli to the rösti and a spicy habanero aioli to the bean patty.

I dare say it was a pretty good dinner - yum!

Cheers,
OceanBee