Quinoa Black Bean Burgers

These vegetarian black bean and quinoa burgers are delicious! Your carnivorous friends will be impressed. My favorite way to serve them is on a whole wheat bun with garlic-lemon mayonnaise, fresh spinach leaves, sliced tomato, and caramelized onions.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 20 mins
• Total Time: 35 mins
• Calories: 245 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup water
• 1 large egg
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• ½ cup bread crumbs
• 1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
• 2 tablespoons minced onion
• 1 large clove garlic, minced
• ¼ cup quinoa
• ¼ cup minced yellow bell pepper
• 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce (such as Frank's RedHot®)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Bring quinoa and water to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until quinoa is tender and water has been absorbed, about 15 to 20 minutes.

Step 2

Roughly mash black beans with a fork, leaving some whole black beans, to form a paste-like mixture. Mix quinoa, bread crumbs, bell pepper, egg, onion, garlic, cumin, salt, and hot pepper sauce into black beans using your hands. Form black bean mixture into 5 patties.

Step 3

Heat olive oil in a large skillet.

Step 4

Cook patties in hot oil until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes per side.