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Best Black Bean Burger
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The Best Black Bean Burger

Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword entree, meatless, nut-free
Servings 8 patties

Ingredients

  • 2 14 oz cans black beans
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil extra virgin
  • 1 red bell pepper diced
  • 1 onion (small-medium) diced
  • 3 cloves garlic cloves minced
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp chili powder
  • 1/4 tsp garlic power
  • 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
  • 1/4 cup ground flax seed (optional)
  • 1/4 cup wheat germ (optional)
  • 1/4 cup nutritional yeast (optional)
  • 1/2 cup feta cheese
  • 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 Tbsp ketchup
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • pinch pepper

Instructions

  1. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

  2. Drain and rinse black beans. Blot dry with a dark colored kitchen towel or paper towels and place in a large bowl. Spread them out some and let air dry while you go to the next step.

  3. Saute diced onion, bell pepper and minced garlic in olive oil until veggies are soft and translucent, about 5-6 minutes. Set aside.

  4. In the large bowl, mash the air dried black beans with a potato masher, a spoon or fork or even the bottom of a mason jar. Leave some whole black beans for show.

  5. Add remaining ingredients (cumin, chili powder, garlic poweder, smoked paprika, panko, flax seed, wheat germ, nutritional yeast, feta cheese, eggs, worcestershire, ketchup, salt and pepper) and mix well with a wooden spoon. Mixture will be mushy and sticky, but you should still be able to mold/form it into patties. If it's just too sticky to handle, add 1 Tbsp each of panko, flax seed, wheat germ and nutritional yeast until it's a bit easier to handle. Repeat if necessary.

  6. Using a 1/2 cup measuring cup, take a level scoop of the mixture and flip onto baking sheet with parchment paper. Gently press into roughly 3 1/2" wide patties, about 3/4" thick patties. Should make 8.

  7. From here you can either fry, bake, grill patties or freeze patties for later use. See note below.

  8. Place them on bun, in a tortilla, lettuce leaf or just on a plate and top them with your favorite burger fixin's. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

To fry fresh patties, heat pan with oil over medium to medium-high heat for a couple minutes and then place patties in pan. Cook for about 15 minutes, flipping about half way through, until internal temperature is 165 degrees F. When cooking from frozen, add extra time.

 

To bake fresh patties, pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F, spray both sides of patty with some oil,  and bake for about 20 minutes, flipping half way through. When cooking from frozen, add extra time.

 

To grill fresh patties, spray both sides of patty with some oil, place on greased foil and grill over med-high for about 15 minutes, flipping half way through. When cooking from frozen, add extra time.

 

To freeze, simply put baking sheet with parchment paper in freezer until patties are frozen. Then stack and layer patties between parchment parchment paper and store in freezer bag. You can thaw them in the fridge ahead of time or cook from frozen.