![When I last checked in, Michelle and I went down to Zak’s, thus making yet another small dent in our quest to find the best burgers in Seattle (Two Bells is next on the list). Inspired by Zak’s, I stayed in last night and made a delicious spicy black bean burger. I haven’t done a recipe in a minute, so bear with me.
Ingredients:
1 can of black beans
1/2 pepper (green, red, yellow, whatever your preference is)
1/2 a yellow onion
1 egg or egg replacer (for my vegan peeps)
Cayanne pepper
a pinch of sea salt
1 Cup of bread crumbs or 1 slice of bread
1. Heat your black beans for about 10-15 minutes (set to simmer). This will soften them up a bit. Let them cool afterwards for about 3 to 5 minutes.
2. Pour your beans into a bowl and mash those mothers up good. Once you have a paste like consistency, add in the other ingredients. Now the cayanne pepper calls for a 1/4 teaspoon, but I like my spicy to be SPICY (CAPS!), so I sprinkled it as I mixed all the ingredients together.
3. Once you’ve finished mixing everything, put about a little bit of vegetable oil onto a frying pan, set the range to medium heat, and slop that stuff on. Now, it’s easier to form the beans into a burger patty once they are on the pan. You want to make sure that patty is cooked all the way through and so it takes about 10 minutes total (5 each side, maybe longer). What you DON’T want to do, is flip it too early, otherwise, the burger will fall apart. You can test this by trying to lift the patty with your spatula.
3a. I also tried this with the Foreman Grill, but it didn’t work quite as well, but it can still do the job nonethless. It takes about same amount of time.
4. Once your burger is done, get your fixins ready and eat like a vegetarian king or queen.
As you can see, I had mine with poutine (fries with gravy and cheese curds [I used shredded cheese]), but a salad might be healthier.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/2S0dgJZ4vo2rly29LQIikA8ro1_500.jpg)
When I last checked in, Michelle and I went down to Zak’s, thus making yet another small dent in our quest to find the best burgers in Seattle (Two Bells is next on the list). Inspired by Zak’s, I stayed in last night and made a delicious spicy black bean burger. I haven’t done a recipe in a minute, so bear with me.
Ingredients:
- 1 can of black beans
- 1/2 pepper (green, red, yellow, whatever your preference is)
- 1/2 a yellow onion
- 1 egg or egg replacer (for my vegan peeps)
- Cayanne pepper
- a pinch of sea salt
- 1 Cup of bread crumbs or 1 slice of bread
1. Heat your black beans for about 10-15 minutes (set to simmer). This will soften them up a bit. Let them cool afterwards for about 3 to 5 minutes.
2. Pour your beans into a bowl and mash those mothers up good. Once you have a paste like consistency, add in the other ingredients. Now the cayanne pepper calls for a 1/4 teaspoon, but I like my spicy to be SPICY (CAPS!), so I sprinkled it as I mixed all the ingredients together.
3. Once you’ve finished mixing everything, put about a little bit of vegetable oil onto a frying pan, set the range to medium heat, and slop that stuff on. Now, it’s easier to form the beans into a burger patty once they are on the pan. You want to make sure that patty is cooked all the way through and so it takes about 10 minutes total (5 each side, maybe longer). What you DON’T want to do, is flip it too early, otherwise, the burger will fall apart. You can test this by trying to lift the patty with your spatula.
3a. I also tried this with the Foreman Grill, but it didn’t work quite as well, but it can still do the job nonethless. It takes about same amount of time.
4. Once your burger is done, get your fixins ready and eat like a vegetarian king or queen.
As you can see, I had mine with poutine (fries with gravy and cheese curds [I used shredded cheese]), but a salad might be healthier.
