Chickpea Sweet Potato Burgers w/ Dilly Cucumber Salad

This might've been the first time I've ever read Self magazine. Not knocking it, it's just not my go-to. But, when American Airlines hit me with a "use it or lose it" speech about my frequent flyer miles, and my only real options were getting free magazine subscriptions, I went ahead and got it. Much to my surprise, I found a pretty awesome recipe lurking on page 152 of the April 2012 issue. Here's the recipe link:

http://www.self.com/fooddiet/recipes/2012/04/chickpea-sweet-potato-burgers 

My only revision: since my beloved Trader Joes didn't have tahini, I used the "tahini sauce" that they had. It's essentially a more tahini-based hummus (with lemon juice, garlic, salt). The good news is: it greatly reduced the calorie content of the recipe, compared to using actual tahini. Nevertheless, delish. 

check out my mandoline marks on the cuke lol

I will say, the one thing that'll get some additional love the next time this recipe hits the Harris table is some sauce! Yes, I'm widely known to be a saucemaster. Maybe a light tahini dijon? Or Raspberry tahini? Who knows...but at least a little something to drizzle over these bad boys to give them a little extra punch on their way down. 

The cucumber salad was AWESOME! I could eat it for days and days. Highly recommend!