Football! {Recipe: The Best Black Bean Veggie Burgers} (2024)

FAQs

How do you keep black bean burgers from falling apart? ›

Mashed Avocado Makes the Best Veggie Burger Binder

Avocado is also a great choice for vegan burgers, when using an egg as a binder isn't an option, as well as gluten-free burgers. And because of its mild flavor, you won't actually taste the avocado, you'll simply be taking advantage of its great binding abilities.

Health Benefits

Veggie burgers like black bean burgers are an excellent source of fiber. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends roughly 25 grams of fiber for women and 38 grams of fiber for men every day.

Eggs are the most common and effective binder, and egg replacers are an excellent alternative for vegan burgers. Other common binders include wheat germ, bread crumbs, oats, and ground flaxseeds. These are dry ingredients, though the recipe's other ingredients often add just enough moisture to make a sufficient binder.

Panko breadcrumbs: breadcrumbs help the burgers bind together and create a nice firm texture. You can use gluten free panko if needed! Regular or Italian-style is great. Flax: ground flaxseed is our egg substitute to help the patties stick together so they don't fall apart when you cook them.

Using only raw vegetables in your burger.

Raw vegetables, while delicious, hold a lot of water. And when added to veggie burgers, these vegetables release all that moisture during cooking, which can make for an especially mushy burger.

Use peanut butter to create a sticky veggie burger mix Adding a small amount of peanut butter to your veggie burger mix is the most straightforward way to ensure your patties stay intact. Peanut butter has an exceptionally sticky texture that helps bind the other ingredients together with minimal effort on your part.

Spices and tomato paste: Smoked paprika, chili powder, salt, and pepper combine to make these burgers a little smoky and incredibly delicious. Tomato paste adds color, sweetness, and an umami flavor to the burgers (highly recommended!). Cooked rice: Adds more texture to the veggie burgers.

Partially dehydrating canned black beans in the oven solves the problem of mushy texture that plagues most black bean burgers. Crumbled feta cheese adds moisture and seasoning right into each patty.

What is the healthiest veggie burger? ›

1 Amy's Kitchen Organic California Veggie Burger

“Known for its use of organic and whole food ingredients, Amy's California Veggie Burger not only tastes great, but it's also high in fiber, helping to support digestive health,” Costa says.

Common binding agents include flax eggs (a mixture of ground flaxseed and water), chia seeds, mashed potatoes, tapioca flour, or even your favorite nut butter. These ingredients help hold everything together and prevent your burger from crumbling.

The flour which you add will help to bind the burger together and dry it out. Some people will also add tapioca starch or cornflour which thicken when cooked, and again these will help bind the burger and give it some texture.

The trick to making black bean burgers that STAY TOGETHER and WON'T FALL APART? Baking them! Baking ensures the burgers cook through completely, the eggs can work their magic at binding everything together, and they dehydrate a little bit so they aren't squishy.

Keep cooking water at a gentle simmer to prevent split skins. Since beans expand as they cook, add warm water periodically during the cooking process to keep the beans covered. Stir beans occasionally throughout the cooking process to prevent sticking. Bite test beans for tenderness.

The very low fat content of the hamburger probably has something to do with it, but there are a couple of tricks you can use: Add 1 egg yolk per pound of hamburger. It won't add appreciably to the fat content and will bind the meat beautifully.