Description
Easy black bean burgers for everyone! You don’t need to follow the recipe or amounts exactly. I never do. Serve with your favorite burger fixings and sweet potato fries.
Ingredients
- 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
- ⅓ cup chopped sweet onion
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 3 baby carrots, grated (Optional)
- ¼ cup minced green bell pepper (Optional)
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon warm water
- 3 tablespoons chile-garlic sauce (such as Sriracha®), or to taste
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon seafood seasoning (such as Old Bay®)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 slices whole-wheat bread, torn into small crumbs
- ¾ cup unbleached flour, or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
- Mash black beans in a bowl. Add carrots
- onion
- bell pepper
- and garlic; mix well.
- Whisk chile-garlic sauce
- cornstarch
- water
- chili powder
- cumin
- seafood seasoning
- salt
- and black pepper together in a separate small bowl.
- Stir chile-garlic sauce mixture into black bean mixture; mix in bread crumbs. Stir flour
- 1/4 cup at a time
- into bean mixture until a sticky batter forms.
- Spoon mounds of batter onto the prepared baking sheet
- about a 3/4-inch thickness per mound; shape into burgers.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cooked in the center and crisp on the outside
- about 10 minutes per side.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 35 mins
Servings: 4