Sweet potato and tuna burgers

These are great! Quick to make, cheap and handy to have in the fridge/ freezer as a snack or as a meal in itself. As the afternoons get darker and darker, the weather is quickly changing here, lots of fog and some hail so far, this will be my first Christmas where I won't be heading back home to Mauritius, hopefully it will be a white one! As we all get into the festive mood, it is so easy to just forget about and neglect exercising! Therefore, I think more than ever, it is soo important to keep really motivated and to set yourself fitness goals, leaving less room for failure! Even as little as 20-30 minutes a day will make a difference. So get up, put some good music on and go workout!!!

Last Saturday was one of 4lunch's market stall where we decided to make a variety of burgers. I volunteered to make the bread rolls for these, although I really enjoyed making them, after a whole day of kneading dough, I do not want to see bread for quite a while!

TUNA AND SWEET POTATO BURGERS
Makes 4-5 good sized burgers

• 250 g boiled sweet potato (about 1 large s.potato)
• 1 can tuna flakes
• 1 egg
• 30 g any flour (I used whole wheat)
• Seasonings of choice (I used salt, pepper, chilli flakes, coriander, 1tsp garlic, 2 stems of chopped spring onion, 0.5 tsp paprika)

1. Mash up the boiled sweet potato and add in the tuna and seasonings, taste the mix at this stage and decide whether to add more spices or not.
2. Fold in the egg and flour until it all comes together nicely, if slightly too wet, add a bit more flour.
3. Preferably leave the mix to refrigerate for a minimum of 30 minutes. 
4. Once ready, heat up a frying pan with some oil on medium heat, form patties and fry for about 5 minutes on each side until a nice crust is formed.

Enjoy with salad or some nice crusty bread rolls.

These are a few naughty desserts I made the other day: lemon cheesecakes, mini carrot cakes and mini peanut butter and dark chocolate cakes. Now off to make some Xmas cupcakes!

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