So I stopped cooking meat last November (except for bacon...bacon is its own food group you know) and it was really easy. We eat a lot of beans, veggies, and pasta at home and the move certainly pushed me out of the unimaginative 'meat-vegetable-bread' dinner rut that I was in. I found an easy recipe for homemade black bean burgers that is a perfect and delicious burger substitute.
Black Bean Burgers (original recipe can be found at allrecipes.com.)
1 (16 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1/2 green bell pepper, diced
1/2 onion, diced
1 egg
1 TBS chili powder
1 TBS cumin
1 tsp chili sauce
2 slices sandwich bread, made into crumbs
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mash beans with a fork and add diced pepper and onion. In a separate bowl, mix egg, spices, and chili sauce. Add egg mixture to beans along with bread crumbs and stir together. Divide into 6 patties. Bake 8-10 minutes per side on a prepared baking sheet. If grilling, be sure place patties on a sheet aluminum foil that has been sprayed with cooking oil and grill 6-8 minutes per side.
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ReplyDeleteI'm making this tomorrow. Rachael Ray was on The View this am, and she had some veggie sloppy joes that I'm going to have to look into.
ReplyDeleteI just realized that I should explain what I topped my burger with...that's lettuce and guacamole, not green slime!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea you went meatless,except bacon! What was the reason? I do like meat. Lol
ReplyDeleteAnita--I decided to add a few more meatless meals to the menu after watching that food documentary Fork over Knife (I think that was what is was called). So it was a more of a health reason. Then a few meatless meals became every meal...at home:)
ReplyDeleteWe would all starve to death if we went meatless. Plus being cattle ranchers it would be weird. I tried it for a week when I was a teenager, but I couldn't do it.
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