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A veggie burger that doesn’t look or taste like meat

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Anna Jones isn’t one to make things what they’re not. Case in point: her approach to veggie burgers.

“I don’t want a veggie burger that tastes and looks like meat,” she writes in her cookbook, One: Pot, Pan, Planet. “I want food to taste of what’s in it.”

This burger’s namesake, pimentón (smoked Spanish paprika), brings “that very, very delicious, smoky, sweet hum.” Jones doubles up on the smoky sweetness with a roasted red pepper salsa, which she spreads on the bottom half of the bun along with mayonnaise and an extra sprinkle of pimentón.

Far from uniform in taste and texture, the character of the primary ingredients — white beans, walnuts, sundried tomatoes and dried apricots — shines through. Jones has a burger night every couple of weeks with her family; she likes to double the batch and freeze half so she always has some ready to go (they keep in the freezer for up to three months).

“I love a veggie burger. And I always find it quite disappointing when things feel really beany or quite worthy, or they’re trying to taste like meat,” says Jones. “I want something that feels exciting. That every bite of the burger feels as exciting as every other

element of a dish. And these ones are great.

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