Plant-based, Indian-influenced burgers that don’t masquerade as meat are redefining vegetarian food

Veggie burger nation

Fast-food chains are making better plant-based burgers – and the South Asian community is championing the change Dakshana Bascaramurty Food culture reporter Photographs by Maya Visnyei; Food Styling by David Grenier The Globe and Mail Published 15 minutes ago

This fall, McDonald’s, the world’s biggest purveyor of beef burgers, put what might be the antithesis of its famous Quarter Pounder on the menu: the McVeggie.

Unlike the Beyond and Impossible plant-based burgers fast-food chains began selling in 2018, the McVeggie is not trying to look, smell or taste like beef. Its fried patty is a breadcrumb-coated mash of zucchini, peas, carrots, green beans, broccoli, corn and edamame.

Within days of its test launch this spring, it was selling out at locations ac