Fiesta Black Bean Bugers

Alright so tonight I want to give a shout out to my friend Brandon. His vegan black bean burgers were the inspiration for this post. You can check all his awesome recipes out, and get the full recipe sans the extra's I threw in at his blog: http://freeloafing.blogspot.com/



Ok, so the base ingredients for this are canned black beans and flour, but I threw in some green chillies and corn for some extra pzazz.

So step one for me was to turn on some music to cook too. My choice was Social Distortion.
Once you have your music on you can proceed to step two! Getting Down to business.

Ok so you want to open up that can of black beans and strain them. Then, if you have a food processor, use that to go to town on those babies.... if you dont have a food processor, or a blender, or anything of the sort[like me].... start mashing 'um up with a fork, or, extra points if you do this, your hands.

 When I was done mashing mine was kind of a moist, thin paste with some whole beans left for texture. I hadn't drained the beans well enough, but when I got to the flour I just added a little extra for thickness.

After that I added some canned green chilies. I only added one, I didn't want them to be over powering.

The chili I added was decent sized. I minced it up and it seemed to go a long way.

Next I added some corn, I didn't measure the amount. I would say about half a cup should do ya.

Seasonings came next. I added some garlic, cayenne pepper, and a sea salt. I couldn't find my chili powder or my cumin... Shame.

 It was finally time for flour. Because of my lack of drainage with the beans, I  didn't add a set amount. I just kept adding flour until my goop was a little thicker than re-fried beans. I unfourtunatly only had plain white flour, so thats what I used. After I mixed it all up I stuck it in my fridge to chill for about 2 hours, I don't think it needed this long buuuut it was still pretty early and I wanted to share with my mum.


When I took is out it was sort of the consistency of sticky cookie dough. I floured my hands while I was forming and flouring the patties to make it a little less messy.

I fried the burger in olive oil, until it was crispy on the outside  [burning myself and oiling my shirt in the process]

Lastly I topped the burger with sun dried tomato and enchilada sauce. And thats it, voila.

Once again I'd like to thank Brandon for the wonderful ideas and the delicious food he posts on his blog. Def check it out.

 P.S. Tomorrow I'll post a how to on how to get oil stains out of your shirt.... just in case you're as messy as I am.