This Black Bean Fiesta Burger has a savory spicy black bean patty topped with zippy Cilantro Jicama Fiesta Slaw - a few swipes of my "special spicy sauce" on the whole wheat toasted buns - and some tomato, onion and avocado. Slice. Serve. Smile to find yourself in veggie burger bliss. Sweet potato fries optional.
Ever since I had my quickie interview with Bobby Flay I've got veggie burger recipes on my mind. Bobby's right. A really good veggie burger is not an easy thing! It takes the perfect texture, combo of spices and flavors, something to make it stick together - for vegans, no eggs allowed - and to me, a veggie burger still has to be healthy. Deep frying a bean patty might be yummy, but it's missing the point.
A good veggie burger is a powerful thing. Am I sounding dramatic? But it's true! A good veggie burger can make anyone - even real-hamburger addicts - say "Wow, I really could crave this veggie burger once in a while!" - or maybe, just maybe one good veggie burger, and you might crave a veggie burger all the time..
First, let us gawk at the beauty of a Veggie. Burger. shall we?..
Fiesta Slaw - zippy burger topping..
burgers for two?..
I'm not saying I'm a veggie burger expert. I still have a long way to go in crafting "the perfect burger" - or maybe Bobby will do it first for me. But I'm certainly proud of the recipes I have created thus far. And today's black bean burger gets a thumbs up from my taste buds.
My other veggie burgers: my white bean burger, my green edamame burger and even my sweet potato burger. And my latest burger is black bean - in honor of Bobby's preference for southwestern flair. I even took Bobby's advice and included some crunchy jicama in my burger-topping slaw.
Don't forget the avocado!! I did. As you can tell from the photos. I had some lime-juice spritzed, sliced avocado all ready to go for the burgers, but I forgot it! I later added it for a taste test and I definitely recommend it.
Black Bean Fiesta Burgers
vegan, makes 5 burgers
5 whole wheat burger buns
Cilantro Jicama Fiesta Slaw (recipe here)
Burgers:
1 ½ cups black beans, drained/canned (unsalted)
3 tablespoon fine bread crumbs
¾ cup baked/mashed sweet potato
3 tablespoon chopped cilantro - including stems
⅓ cup diced white onion
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
¾ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
2 tablespoon lime juice
½ jalapeno, diced/de-seeded
3 tablespoon nutritional yeast - or use more bread crumbs
a few dashes of chipotle powder or cayenne for extra heat
Special Spicy Sauce:
½ cup vegan mayo
2 teaspoon garlic hot sauce
5 round onion slices and 5 round tomato slices
optional: lime-juice spritzed avocado slices (not shown in burger photos - but recommended!)
Directions:
1. First off prepare the Fiesta Slaw according to the directions. (recipe) - Chill in fridge until ready to add to burgers.
2. Whip up your "special spicy sauce" - set aside in fridge as well.
3. Next up, prepare the burgers. Pulse all the ingredients in a food processor. You can also mash well by hand - but a fp is a tad faster. Next, hand-form burger patties with the mixture and place them on a lightly greased baking sheet. I like to roll my burgers in a touch of bread crumbs so that they have nice crisp edges.
baked burgers..
4. Bake your burgers at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool for a few minutes before assembling burgers. The last 5 minutes of cooking - add your burger buns to the oven to warm/toast them.
burgers - this batch actually had no sweet potato in it - I later added the sweet potato and liked the moisture it added.
5. Assemble those burgers! Warm bun, spread of special sauce, tomato, onion, optional avocado, burger, fiesta slaw and finally another slather of the special spicy sauce on the top bun.
Serve! Enjoy the fiesta in your mouth!
Michelle says
All the links for the slaw are now broken—is it possible to recover that recipe? Thanks! Been making this for years 🙂
Shana says
The link to the Jicama Fiesta Slaw is broken on all pages where it has the link 🙁
Wright says
You have made my life with this recipe!! Eating healthy just got easier 🙂
MacKenzie says
can you freeze the leftover burgers??
Gabriella Davis says
I made these veggie burgers for dinner last night, they were so easy and delicious. I love 'em! Thank you for posting the recipe.
Brennen Massengill says
This is fantastic! I added a little more sweet potato to help everything stay together more the 2nd time I made these. Fantastic flavor!! This is my favorite black bean burger recipe.
Guest says
so colorful! I will have to whip these up.
Kayla says
Made these recently and they tasted AMAZING. I'll probably decrease the amount of wet ingredients next time because the patties turned out quite soft, but still, suuuuuuper tasty. I even got my carnivore of a brother to eat one! This recipe's a keeper. Thanks. 🙂
Skicutie44 says
how many calories are in these burgers?
Maggie says
These were soooo flavorful and delicious!! The fiesta slaw was great, too! Added a ton more that 2 tsp of chili garlic Chalula hot sauce to the spicy sauce though and my burgers started out kinda gooey and way too wet (not sure how I managed that one) so I added about a 2 cups of breadcrumbs (including the 3 tbsp listed) + a little fridge time and it was fine! Sooo good!!! Very impressed!! 😀
Natalie Rivera says
i also didnt bake mine. i didnt have time nor did i want too do it. So i boiled it
Natalie Rivera says
I dont know what happened but they fall apart. i used everything it says on the list. minus lime. And i used the sweet potato that is more yellowish. And used only 1 sweet potato. there is 10 mins left under 375F and i moved them a bit with my spatula and one almost came apart. and the bread crumbs are not even close to a brown color
Anita says
Can u tell me how many carbs are in the patty?