I saw this recipe on Bon Appetit, it is one of their BA’s Best. Mushroom & Black Bean Vegetarian Burgers There are a lot of ingredients in this recipe & I had most of them at home. I did have to substitute some things. Full of vegetables & black beans, this burger is delicious & even a die-hard meat-eater would like these. There isn’t any meat substitute which I like. There is cheese & eggs in this recipe so it is not a vegan veggie burger, but it is really good
The mushrooms & black beans are roasted which enhance their flavour. The texture of the mixture was soft so I doubt that these would work on a grill but if you have a grill pan for the BBQ, you could cook these on that! These Mushroom & Black Bean Vegetarian Burgers will stay on my menu! The sauce that is with this recipe is really good. I had a lot left over so I actually used it as a salad dressing the next day. I froze the leftover burgers & when we go to eat them, I will just make a fresh batch of the sauce!
Here is the link to the recipe on Bon Appetit
Here is the recipe with the substitutions I made… I did not have any barley or smoked paprika …
Vegetarian Burgers with Mushrooms & Black Beans
Ingredients
1 pound brown mushrooms, cleaned *** you can use while button mushrooms here too
2 tbsp olive oil, divided you will use 1 tbsp for the mushrooms & 1 tbsp for the black beans
pepper
1 can of black beans, drained
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 cup unsalted, roasted cashews
1/3 cup old-fashioned oats
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 large egg yolk
1 tbsp miso
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp paprika
pinch of cayenne pepper
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
Sauce for the Burgers
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp finely grated onion
1 tbsp sweet burger relish
2 tsp adobo sauce from a can of chipotle chilies in adobo *** interestingly I had a can of this in my pantry…..not sure what you could substitute it with, but I’m sure you can just leave it out…or add a bit of hot sauce
1/8 tsp celery salt
1/8 tsp kosher salt
Method
Preheat oven to 350f
Prepare 2 baking sheets by lining them with aluminum foil
- Stem & chop the mushrooms. Put them onto one of the prepared baking sheets & sprinkle with salt & pepper & toss with 1 tbsp oil
- Roast the mushrooms until they are tender & have shrunk in size. You will see the moisture come away from them…takes about 15 min depending on what size they are. When done remove from the oven & let them cool
- Using the other prepared baking sheet, spread the black beans on it in an even layer
- Roast the black beans. They will split & dry out around the edges….takes about 10 minutes Let them cool *** I roasted the mushrooms & the black beans at the same time & let them cool while I did the rest of the recipe
- Heat the remaining 1 tbsp oil in a saute pan & cook the onion & garlic until they are soft. Stir often. Let cool.
- In a food processor, pulse the cashews & oats until they are finely chopped.
- In a large bowl, combine the mayonnaise, egg yolk, miso, chill powder, honey, paprika & cayenne together.
- To the mayonnaise mixture, add the onions, cooled roasted mushrooms *** don’t add the liquid form the pan if there is any
- Next add the roasted & cooled black beans
- Now add the cashew/oats *** you still need the food processor so don’t put it away yet
- Mix well & then use a potato masher to mash it all together
- Next step is, take some of the mashed mixture, recipe says to take 1/4 of it, & put it in the food processor, pulse & finely chop it. Add it back to the mashed mixture
- Now…we are getting close to being done…add the grated cheddar cheese. Season with salt & pepper
- Form the mixture into 6 patties
- Using the skillet that you used for the onions, or a cast iron skillet, heat some oil. Cook the patties until brown on both sides
MAKE THE BURGER SAUCE
- In a bowl, whisk the mayonnaise, ketchup, onion, relish & spices together
Gather any toppings you would like for your burgers
- sliced tomato
- lettuce
- pickles
- sliced avocado
- onion …pickled red onions would be good
- and of course any kind of bun you would like to put your burgers on!
My vegetarian friends are coming over for dinner next week and I’m sure they would love these burgers!
They are really tasty!