Black Bean Burger

Name: Black Bean Burger
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 3 cup black beans (two cans, drained, rinsed, patted dry); 1 unit onion (minced); 2 clove garlic (minced); 1 tbsp chipotle in adobo (minced, with a spoon of the sauce); 2 tsp cumin (ground); 2 unit eggs; ¾ cup breadcrumbs; 1 tsp salt; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 4 unit hamburger buns (toasted); 1 unit avocado (sliced); ¼ cup pickled red onions (from the catalog)

Sandwiches & Handhelds · American

12 ingredients · 45 minutes · 4 servings

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889kcal44.6g protein19.7g fat136.7g carbs*

Contains gluten, egg · sometimes contains soy — check the label · only in an optional ingredient: dairy

Restrictions

Containsgluten · eggIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Sometimes contains — check the labelsoy (Mayonnaise)Some brands have it, some do not. The recipe cannot tell, so this is the one you check yourself.

Only if you add itdairy (cheese monterey jack)Leave that ingredient out and the dish does not have it.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

3 cup	black beans (two cans, drained, rinsed, patted dry)
1 unit	onion (minced)
2 clove	garlic (minced)
1 tbsp	chipotle in adobo (minced, with a spoon of the sauce)
2 tsp	cumin (ground)
2 unit	eggs
¾ cup	breadcrumbs
1 tsp	salt
2 tbsp	vegetable oil
4 unit	hamburger buns (toasted)
1 unit	avocado (sliced)
¼ cup	pickled red onions (from the catalog)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

4 slice	cheese (pepper jack)
¼ cup	mayonnaise + chipotle (the sauce in 30 seconds)

Steps

Roast10 min
350°F, beans spread on a sheet — the anti-mush step
the rinsed beans in one layer until their skins split and the surfaces look dry and leathery — canned beans are waterlogged, and this ten minutes of oven-drying is the difference between a patty and a paste; it is the step every failed bean burger skipped
Mash4 min
two-thirds mashed, one-third left whole
the dried beans + onion + garlic + chipotle + cumin + salt, mashed to a coarse mix with real bean halves visible — the whole beans are the texture; a food processor takes this to hummus in three pulses, which is why a fork or masher is the specified tool
Mix3 min
eggs + crumbs folded in, then CHILLED 15
- eggs
bound and rested in the cold — the crumbs hydrate and the patties firm from sticky to shapeable; formed into four thick patties after the chill, not before
Sear8 min
medium, oiled pan, 4 min a side, flipped ONCE gently
- cheese
until deeply crusted on both faces, cheese on for the last minute — the crust is where a bean burger earns its keep, and one confident flip with a real spatula beats three nervous ones; these patties reward patience and punish fiddling exactly like the mush they refuse to be
Top3 min
built on toasted buns
chipotle mayo, patty, avocado, pickled red onions — the acid-and-cream pairing that black beans have wanted forever; built this way it argues with no one about what it isn't and wins on what it is