# Making patties from oddball ingredients

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**Created:** [December 4, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-patties-from-oddball-ingredients/562892 "2010-12-04T02:13:07Z")\
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I have some leftover spaghetti + meat sauce (already combined) and started thinking: could I make some sort of patty out of it? If so … how?

I make salmon patties often, using mashed potato as a binder and pressing bread crumbs and/or panko into the surface. What would work in this application? I was looking at some homemade veggie burger recipes for inspiration. Whaddya think, CafeDopers, what to mix the sauced pasta with: mashed beans? mashed potatoes? some sort of egg binder?

Anyone out there tried this already?

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