This is for everyone who wants to enjoy burgers but doesn’t eat meat. These black bean burgers are so tasty, very moist, and perfect in a burger bun with all the burger trimmings!!
For the close-readers you might be wondering ‘where is the seasoning’? The Feta is the answer!
2 tins black beans – drain the juice and leave for 30 minutes
1 large onion, chopped
1/2 a red pepper, chopped
2 eggs
100g breadcrumbs
100g Feta cheese
2 cloves garlic – grated
1 tbsp ground cumin
1 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 teasp chilli powder or chilli flakes to your taste
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp brown sauce
chopped coriander to your taste.
Sliced onion
Sliced gherkin
Large slices of tomato
Lettuce
Burger buns
Place the drained beans on a plate between two tea towels and dry them off – remove all the liquid. I often put mine on a flat tray in the oven for 10 minutes to dry them out.
Fry the onion and pepper and add the grated garlic once they are soft. Then remove from the heat.
In a food processor, make the breadcrumbs then add the cumin, paprika and chilli.
Add the beans, garlic and then the onion and red pepper then mix on a high speed until all incoporated but with a chunky texture.
Then add two eggs and the Feta cheese, followed by the sauces. Finally, add the fresh coriander.
Process once more but carefully avoid the mixture becoming a ‘paste’. It’s easier to do this by pulsing rather than one continuous burst.
Prepare a baking try by lining it with parchment (non stick) paper.
Spread coarse semolina on the worktop, wet your hands and then take a couple of large spoonfuls of the mixture into your palm and shape roughly into a burger then put on the work surface and shape it further, using the coarse semolina to stop it sticking. Turn the burger over and coat it with semolina then place on the baking tray. Do this with all the mixture remembering to wet your hands for every burger. You should end up with 10 burgers about 1.5cm thick. Place these on the lined baking tray and put in the fridge for about 30 minutes so the burgers firm up.
When ready to cook, put some oil in a non stick pan and when hot add two or three burgers depending on the size pan. Also add the sliced onion. Cook the burgers for 5 minutes on one side then 5 minutes the other side, turning the heat down if they look like they will brown too quickly.
Push to one side when ready and add the base of the burger buns, cut side down, and cook for two minutes.
Then assemble, tasted bun, onions, tomato, burger, pickled gherkin slices, squeeze of ketchup, burger lid!
These freeze really well if you wrap in greaseproof paper and put in a box in the freezer (unfrozen). Defrost completely before cooking.
Enjoy them. Your meat-eating mates will all want them!
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