Okara sesam burgers with oven chips

I adore okara, which is basically a by-product of tofu production, therefore quite difficult to find, unless you know a small producer, which is my case (thank you again, Tomislav ...)  - of course, you can replace the okara with plain tofu for this recipe ...

We happened to have a craving for a veggie burger and for okara at the same time, so the recipe was a no-brainer: we mixed the okara with chickpea flour (for stickiness), pan fried garlic and onion (for taste), a little water (for moisture) and some spices: salt, pepper, curcuma, cumin. We set the whole in the fridge for a couple of minutes, then prepared the burgers and rolled them in sesame seeds - which was very easy, as they were pretty moist - and finally pan fried them in some olive oil until nice and brown ...

In the mean time, we peeled and cut our potatoes, washed them to take some of the starch off, dried them and mixed them in a bowl with olive oil, salt, pepper and herbs - rosemary, thyme, oregano ... everything works, really ... and we cooked them in the oven for about half an hour at 180-200°C ... I also put a whole garlic bulb (unpeeled but head chopped off and rubbed with some salt and olive oil and enveloped in some aluminium foil) with the potatoes, as a little experiment...

When the potatoes are ready, you can serve them with the burgers - we also had some wholemeal buns, on which we spread some of the garlicky cream (this happens to the garlic after half an hour in the oven - you can literally squeeze every clove on your bread ...), some home made baba ganoush and some rocket salad ... the result was out of this world, so much so, that we didn't even stop to take a picture!!