Don’t you just love biting into something just simply amazing your taste buds go wild? These Black Bean Burgers, my friends, are my favourite healthy burger recipe since ever : it’s basically all I want to eat nowadays! They are great for lunch with a salad or bun or a nice grain-like quinoa or brown rice. These will be a hit once you try them – and will make a nice addition to BBQ! Yesss? :)
If you’re trying to eat less red meat, this is a great recipe to try. Plant based protein is nice and light and budget friendly. What’s great is that these also come together in under 15 minutes! And they are super easy to just throw the ingredients together and mix up, shape into patties, cook, eat. Done! I think I know what my favourite part is – the fact that it takes longer to eat these than to make… seriously! :)
The kitchen is my comfort-zone and I feel the happiest in it making something yummy to feed my cute family.
BTW, I apologize in advance as you keep scrolling down for having to lick the screen. Sorry! I promise the real thing is more delicious than your dusty finger-printy screen :)
Gluten Free Vegan Black Bean Burgers
- 1 14-ounce can of black beans, rinsed and drained (or red kidney beans)
- ½ medium white onion, chopped fine (about ½ cup)
- 1-2 small cloves garlic, minced OR 1 teaspoon of garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ cup fresh parsley
- ¼ cup rolled oats or breadcrumbs (certified gluten-free if GF is important to you)
- ½ – 1 teaspoon fine sea salt or to taste (use less salt if the beans have salt added)
- freshly cracked black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- about 1/4 cup flour of choice (I used chickpea flour)
- grape seed oil for sautéing
- In a food processor, add in all the ingredients (except the last two: flour & oil) and mix until fully combined.
- (Or mash the beans with a potato masher in a large bowl and mix in all the ingredients with a wooden spoon or your hands).
- Transfer to a large bowl so it’s easier to work from.
- Scoop up about two tablespoons of the mixture into the palm of your hands and shape like a patty. Continue with all the mixture.
- Sprinkle the flour onto a large plate, drop the patty onto the flour and coat all over, dust off excess with your fingers.
- Heat a large cast iron pan, drizzle oil on the bottom and place the patties on the pan.
- Cook each side on medium low heat for about 3-5 minutes, then turn them over to cook the other side, until the colour darkens and they are firmer in shape.
- Alternatively, you can bake them at 350 F for 20-30 minutes, turning over half way through.
- Let cool for 5 minutes until serving.
I enjoyed eating these with the ends of my gluten free bread (they made a good ‘bun’ that wasn’t too fluffy and big). I had some natural mustard, organic ketchup, and pickled red pepper – my favourite addition to any burgers! It basically was the best thing I ate in a long time.
You could serve these with your favourite buns, or you could plop them into a salad or serve with a hearty healthy grain like quinoa or buckwheat.
CUT THE SUGAR TIP :
- All carbs have sugar because they basically become glucose in the intestines, if you are trying to cut out sugar from your diet, consider eating these burgers with a big salad instead of a bun or eating a low-glycemic grain such as buckwheat as part of dinner.
I hope you’ll be enjoying these soon! If so, do let me know how you like them through the comments here on this post or through social media, tagging your photos #pureella and @pure_ella so I can see them :) I repost my favourites! :)
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If I bake these, do I still have to coat with flour?
Great question…. no.
I will make it more clear in the recipe, thanks for double checking :)
Hope you enjoy these soon and let me know how you liked the recipe! xoxo ella
My mixture came out really wet! What do it do?!?
Nevermind! I left 1/2 a can of beans in the sink! Haha
Haha… whew… I was a little worried there :)
Hope you enjoyed them! xox ella
It’s rich in protein and has no cholesterol! Wow! This burger already looks delicious by itself, but together with some ingredients like tomato and mayonnaise it will be irresistible. Great recipe! =)
Yes and Yes and so much more yes – they’re really easy and quick to make and healthy too :) Your toppings sound fab! ;) Enjoy!! <3
These look amazing! I was curious if you knew if i could replace the flax seeds with chia seeds? I really want to make these but dont happen to have flax seeds on hand. Thanks in advance :)
Yes you can :) Soak them as long as you can so the texture will disappear, or use ground chia seeds if you have those on hand.
But yes, they will also work well :)
Let me know how you like them! xox ella
These definitely DO look like the best! Love the oats in there!
Thanks Katrina! They were a hit from the kiddos to the hubby :) Win Win!! xoxo
Hi! So these were amazing – soooo yummy! The only thing is that the batter was quite wet :( in result we had some pretty mushy patties. Any idea what I did wrong? I didn’t forget to add anything – I even doubled the amount of oats!!!
Yay for great tasting burgers :) but that’s too bad they came out too mushy…
Did you use canned or cooked beans? If canned, just make sure to strain them a long time or just dab dry with a towel.
It could also depend on the brand of beans, it would be good to try with a different brand next time and rinse then strain longer.
Sorry, I can’t think of why they would be more wet – good call though with adding more oats.
Do let me know how it goes next time :)
*hugs* ella
I feel sort of slow for asking this, but do the rolled oats need to be cooked?
Hi, sorry for the late response…. it’s uncooked oats :)
They help to soak up the liquids :)
Hope you’ll enjoy this recipe soon! xox ella
Can these go in the freezer?
I haven’t tried, but I don’t see why not. (I have frozen other bean burgers before and they thaw out fine.)
Just thaw fully before frying and they should be great. OR freeze once fried/ baked so they’re ready to just reheat :) I would say use them up within a month if frozen.
Do let me know how you like them. Happy Cooking!! ella
Hi can you tell me how many party’s this makes?
Hi Amber,
Thanks for your questions…. it would make about 8-10 medium patties, it all depends on the portion size. You could make them smaller or larger/ thicker as you like as long as they still hold up :)
I hope you enjoy these soon :)
*pattys*
The first step says add all ingredients but in the instructions it sounds as if you don’t actually add the flour to the mixture. Can you clarify?
Can you make these a couple hours ahead before you cook them?
Yes, definitely, just keep them in the fridge in a covered container. Ideally separated with paper sheets so they don’t stick.
Cook within 3 days :) Let me know how you like them! xoxo
Aw man… In the first 2 steps you said add ALL of the ingredients in together… So I added the flour in with everything else, and now my mixture is crazy dry. (Instead of just using the flour to coat the outside, which I realized afterwareds…). Tips on how to fix, or should I just start over?
Oh I’m so sorry about this…. just saw this comment….
Hopefully you didn’t ditch this mixture and start over.
It will cook fine – you could add a tiny bit of water if it’s super dry and won’t stick.
Do let me know if I can help in any other way. xox ella
I have to admit that the only reason I looked at this recipe was because I had black bean in the cupboard and no meat in the freezer. As a father of four boys, “vegan” may as well have been considered a swear word. What happened took my completely by surprise!
Why 5 Stars? Rarely do I find a meal that everyone in the family LOVES and that meets 100%of mommy’s approval. It wasn’t quite vegan because we used Mayo and each boy dressed their own burger with ketchup and/or mustard. We used Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, avocado slices stacked between Dave’s Killer Bread 21 whole grains and seeds. We liked it so much that we had it twice this week. One other thing I noticed, there were no tummy aches tonight…hmm.
Who knows, I might be getting the nerve to take on your 21 day sugar-free challenge. Thank you Ella!
Hi Jace,
OMG thanks SO much for this awesome comment :)
Haha I hear you on the ‘vegan’ ;) lol We’re not a vegan family (I’m a pescetarian, family eats fish and chicken but not beef or pork very often) and I try hard not to use that word but still want to help vegans out there + people with allergies for egg etc.
So anyway, I get what you were thinking and I wish people were more open to eating bean burgers because they ARE awesome :) + we also see that they’re gentler to digest and pretty much so much easier to prepare than meat (not to mention so much cheaper ;) )
Point is, I’m just really happy you found this recipe and enjoyed these so much with your family :)
Next up, you should definitely try the Quinoa Chickpea Burgers :)
https://pureella.com/quinoa-chickpea-burgers-gluten-free-and-vegan/
:) Enjoy!!! xox
This is very interesting and I would love to try. We’re actually trying to decrease our meat intake and a black bean burger seems to be a great idea. Thank you for sharing this recipe. Will try this really soon. Hopefully, I get to prepare it right.
That looks so good!