Black Bean and Sweet Potato Burger
* 1/2 cup chopped onion
* 1/2 cup chopped celery
* 2 cloves garlic
* 15 ounce can of black beans, rinsed and drained
* 1/2 sweet potato, chopped into 1/2 inch pieces and boiled for 7-8 minutes until soft, with skin
* 2.5 T ground flax, 3 T water
* 2 T paprika
* 1 T cumin
* pinch of salt, or to taste
Prep:
Heat a skillet with non-stick spray. Once warm add the onion and garlic in to the skillet and cook until they are limp and start to brown a bit. Put the cooked onion mixture into a food processor or blender. Add the beans and potato chunks and pulse five or six times. The beans should be broken up but there should still be some small chunks. Don’t over process, as you want your bean burgers to be a little chunky.
Transfer the veggie and bean mixture into large bowl and stir in remaining ingredients and form into small 3” patties (or bigger if you’re actually going to eat it in a burger bun).
In the same skillet, heat on medium, spray non-stick spray and add the patties, cook each side until browned, about 6-7 minutes total OR you can bake them on 375° for about 25 minutes, flipping once.
Note: I omitted bread crumbs which was included in the original recipe to avoid refined carbs, but go ahead and try adding some 100% whole wheat bread crumbs if your mixture needs some more bulk.
Nutrition info: One 3” patty (50g) yields 39 calories, 0.5g fat, 6.6g carbs, and 2g protein. Each tiny patty also gives you 2g of fiber each. Yum indeed!
These are delicious! I had trouble getting them to form “patties” to put into the pan, so my solution was to chill them for a bit to get them to firm up before putting them on the pan. Otherwise, they worked out very well.
I doubled this recipe and I’m going to have like 10 extra patties (I ate two big-ish ones). It made way more than expected.
omg i am craving this right now and its midnight I am making them right now <3 yums
I would also like to know if it is tsp or tbsp. Also how many it yields. Thanks
Big T is for tablespoons, Tbsp
Little t is for teaspoon, tbsp
:)
Just made these…yum! I used extra hot smoked paprika to give them a kick and served them witha big salad and some passata flavoured with paprika and cumin, and even my meat loving husband said they were delicious
hey is T tablespoon or teaspoon? i really wanna try this!
tablespoon!
Just made these along with the butternut squash fries and Pico de Gallo – SO GOOD! Made about 8-9 patties and tasted fantastic!
did anyone ever find out if T meant teaspoon or tablespoon?
I want to try this recipe, but i’m not sure what mean T ? Is it Tablespoon or teaspoon? Thank you Cassey!
I made these and for some reason they turned out kind of liquidy? Like it was super hard to flip them over and they’re not solid, like how they look in your picture. Why could that be?
I made these today because I was craving burgers and fries (yay for PMS) and they were great! although i had to make some changes (didnt have celery so i added more onions, food processor grinds anything to mush so i added oats [not bread crumbs] for consistency, and added diff spices because thats all I had) then i used the other half of the sweet potato to make baked “fries”, and topped my burger with lettuce and tomato and i must say that this will DEF become one of my fave new recipes :)
i loooove beans and i loooove burgers and well i LOVED eating such a satisfying and filling meal :)
wowww looks really good! just wondering, are these spicy?
Around how many patties does this yield?
Hmmm don’t remember but def more than 4-6 servings.