This sweet potato hamburger bun recipe makes delicious, soft and slightly chewy buns; perfect for your next vegan burger cookout! Sweet potatoes give these buns a unique texture along with beta-carotene and other nutrients, while freshly ground flax seeds add Omega-3’s. Best of all, the recipe is really simple and easy, requiring no special equipment, so anyone can make them. I hope you give them a try! Click here for the printable recipe.

Video Tutorial for Vegan Sweet Potato Burger Buns

The first step is cooking the sweet potatoes and mashing them. If you don’t have access to sweet potatoes, you can also use other root vegetables such as regular potatoes and carrots. Do keep in mind that using different vegetables will affect the final flavour, though it will be light. I chop up the potatoes into 1″ cubes so that they will cook quickly.

This recipe is quite similar to the hamburger bun recipe that I posted last year; these fluffy flax seed buns. The main difference is the addition of sweet potato mash and extra flour to soak up the extra moisture that come with that.

The nice thing about adding a warm mash to the mixture is that it makes the dough fairly warm and this makes the rising process go more quickly. Because it’s been warm lately, the rising process takes only 30 minutes. Typically, this takes anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and fifteen.

Whereas last year, I used melted vegan butter to brush on top of the buns, these buns are brushed lightly with a mixture of one part maple syrup and one part water. This “syrup wash” keeps the sesame seeds stick on and gives the tops of the buns a nice golden brown. It’s totally optional though.

After baking, the golden color from the sweet potatoes really comes out more. The resulting buns are slightly chewy but soft. I always toast the inside of my burger buns as it really makes a difference; making a ordinary vegan burger seem more gourmet. Not that these burgers were ordinary. They were gorgeous; hearty, juicy, and perfect.

Printable recipe for Vegan Sweet Potato Buns



