Veggie Black Bean Burger Sliders

Hello,

This well-known burger is known in the veggie community. Lately I have been a pescatarian, the only meat I eat is seafood. This is not my first time as a pescatarian so I know the do's and don'ts which is very easy don't eat other meat than seafood. 

Black bean burger is not new to me but it's new to me cooking it! My first time eating the burger was at a restaurant, I saw it on the menu and wanted to try it out. Reading the ingredients I knew it was a vegetarian dish. This was about 1 or 2 years ago, fast forward this pass Sunday. I went to a gathering I knew I couldn't have no meat except seafood. Looking at the menu and saw Black Bean Burger, I went ahead an order it. I was thinking to myself I never try to make a veggie burger, the ingredients are similar so, why not.

Making a burger is easy you can't go wrong preparing it.  Went to the grocery and purchase my items. I didn't want a regular size burger, so I went ahead and got sliders because the burgers were going to be my afternoon healthy snack.

Ingredients:

1 can Black Beans Canned

1 cup of Frozen or Fresh Bell Peppers

1 cup Bread Crumbs or Flour

1 large Egg

¾ cup Cilantro

¼ tbsp of any seasoning you will like to add to the ingredients for more flavor

Slider Hamburger Bun

¾ cooking oil

Romaine Lettuce (optional)

Cole Slaw (optional)

Instruction:

Blending Black Beans and Bell Peppers

1. I use one cup of the beans to blend in the blender and the others I left whole. I don't have a food process, so I substitute with my smoothie and food blender.
2. I pour in the cup of black beans, ¼ tbsp of cilantro, and some of the bell peppers blend them.
3. In the bowl I add bread crumbs, seasonings (black pepper, salt, paprika, smoked paprika, ground mustard, and dried parsley) one egg, and then add the blended ingredients to the bowl.
4. Mix the ingredients and then add the rest of the beans, bell pepper, and cilantro.

Note: The bread crumbs or flour and egg help put all the ingredients together so they can stay together when it comes to cooking.

5. I use olive oil to cook them. You only need ¾ tbsp or less of cooking oil for each batter. When I cook them, I had to add a little more oil to each burger set I cooked.

I did two methods for this:

1. I use a scooper and place them in the pan
2. I use the ice cream scooper place it in my hand and try to make it round and then place it in the pan.

WHEN FLIPPING THEM OVER

1. When I flip them over I use a spatula, they can be tricky, after I flip each one of them over, I press them down a little so it can cook thoroughly.
2. Once the other side is cooked I flip it over again for a minute and them take them out and get ready for the other set of burgers.
3. I place them in a cooling rack, let them sit for about 2 minutes.

Now the fun part, eating!!!