This recipe helped me realize that coarsely chopping hardy vegetables like carrots is the secret to creating a veggie-centric veggie burger. It preserves more of the texture of the vegetables than, say, roasting and pureeing them, and it also gives an interesting and varied texture to the finished burger.

Peanut butter and a few flavorful aromatics amp up and amp up the carrots, making this another one of those veggie burgers that’s all about the veggies. Natural peanut butter will give a pure peanut flavor, while processed with added sugar will be a bit sickening.