 Hey everybody today's recipe. We're making black bean burgers now These are vegan and gluten-free, and I think they're super delicious And I'm gonna show you how to make them so that they're not too soft and mushy I'm rockin robin, and I'm gonna show you how to do it right after this All right, so let's go over our ingredients first up. We have our canned black beans So what you want to do there is just drain them out rinse them give them a nice rinse And then we're gonna pour them onto a foil lined baking sheet because we want to dry them out That's what's going to keep this from being too wet of a recipe So go ahead and spread them out into a single layer so they can dry out in the oven All right, let's move on to our garbanzo beans We're gonna do the same thing with those as well And so you want to drain them and save but you want to save the liquid in the canned garbanzo bean That's aquafaba which can be a substitute for egg whites, so you don't want to throw that away It's very useful and at the end of this video I'm gonna show you a recipe that you can use that for when you're making this So we'll place our beans into a 325 degree Fahrenheit oven for about 15 minutes or so so they can dry out So here's our beans after 10 minutes in the oven and you can see that they're quite dried out Now this is an important step that you don't want to skip next up is our lentils These are just dried lentils that I cooked up according to the package directions So go ahead and do that drain them And then I actually put mine in the refrigerator to kind of dry them out as well I've got a yellow onion here and some mushrooms that I Did the super fine dice with because I want it to be really small and just mix in really well We'll also do the same with some diced up Bell peppers here. I'm using an orange one just because that's what I had in the fridge Next up is some beets now I took some fresh beets and I rinse them and then peel them and then I use a grater and I graded them into small pieces Then you'll want to place that into a saucepan and cover it with some water and Then place it on the stove and bring it to a boil and then simmer it for about 10 minutes or so until You can taste it and see that they're soft and cooked a little bit Once the beets have cooled off then you're going to want to drain them as well To get all the liquid out of them and then take a spoon and press the beets You know into the into the strainer so that you can drain out even more of the of the liquid We'll need some arrowroot that's going to help to kind of thicken things up and hold it together And I have some nutritional yeast here, which is going to add a nice little cheesy kind of flavor to your burger for spices I've got some garlic powder some smoked paprika. We'll have some salt and pepper We're going to use some red chili flakes in this. That's just optional if you want a little bit of heat We'll need some olive oil and some fresh herbs. I've got some fresh Italian parsley here and some basil and by the way, this is a great way to keep your fresh herbs fresh longer as I just trim them up a little bit and then place them into a little mason jar with some water and then Place a zip lock bag or any kind of plastic bag over the top and just set it in your refrigerator and it keeps for quite a long time The only other prep work that we need to do for this recipe is to cook the onion mushrooms and the bell pepper just for a little bit Maybe five to 10 minutes tops in a little bit of olive oil on the stove So we'll get a nice big large frying pan put about a teaspoon of Olive oil in there get it hot and then add the onions and the mushrooms and the bell peppers and just saute them for like I said 10 minutes You want to let your onion mixture cool a bit before we start putting everything together? So we're ready to do that now. So I'm going to take All my beans that I dried out in the oven the black beans and the garbanzo beans and I'm going to place them in my food processor The spoil comes in handy. It makes a nice little way to carry them over here and it keeps the pan clean So clean up is great. All right, we'll put that in there I'm going to put in the lentils And things start getting pretty full. So I don't want to overdo this Because what we're going to do is just mix this much here together and then we're going to put the rest of it in a bowl And we're going to mix it up by hand and you want to pulse Place everything at this point in the bowl because the food processor really isn't Blending things up is too great. Now. It's pretty pretty full. So we're going to do it by hand And I'm going to mix in the beets And I think just doing it by hand really works well Okay, now we want to get these spices in there and I want to kind of sprinkle them around to just You know just to spread them around Better put a little bit in Mix it up And then do it again All right. I'm going to sprinkle in the arrow root a little bit at a time and you can do that with the Nutritional yeast as well And just work it in Now you can taste this at any point in time because Everything's cooked. It's not like you're you know, it's like Hamburger meat where you you can't taste it. You can taste this at any point I'm going to dump in the parsley And use the fresh stuff. Don't try and use You know dried parsley or dried basil. It will not taste nearly as good And I want to put just a pinch of salt in there All right, put some pepper in there And some red pepper flakes This is optional. I like that just a hint of heat is nice Look at that that red color almost looks like Ground beef almost Okay, so that's all my ingredients and at this point now We're just going to adjust them if we need to like add a little more salt if we need to more pepper flakes Pepper whatever you want. All right, let's make some patties Remember these aren't going to shrink up like a regular hamburger would and these aren't really, you know hamburgers. I mean, they're different So don't expect them to be like wow. This tastes like a hamburger I mean, it's going to taste good, but it may not taste like a hamburger to you Now you can serve these up. You can eat them just like this, you know, fry it up and cook it and Eat it with some veggies You can serve it on a hamburger bun. You can serve it on regular bread. Make it like a patty melt That's what I'm going to do because I don't have any hamburger buns today Heat up your frying pan here. I've got mine over a medium low heat kind of and I'm going to put in Probably about two to three teaspoons of oil in the pan Give that oil a swirl And you can I can tell that the oil is hot. So I'm going to place my burger in there Then got it over medium heat What we want to do is get a little crust going on this thing a little browning You'll see when we turn it over we're going to cook this for probably just a two couple minutes two or three minutes Depending on how high that that temperature is I mentioned earlier that I have a recipe for you to try using the garbanzo bean liquid that we used in this recipe While it's my matcha latte delgano recipe. It is absolutely delicious It's nice and creamy and just it's iced and it just is perfect for this time of year It's starting to get hot. You're going to love it. So check it out All right, I think it's time to flip them over All right, they're done. I'm going to take them off and put them on a plate So here's how I'm going to eat my black bean burger I'm going to make it a black bean patty melt and place my bread down there in the butter Take my patty Place it right there. I'm going to top it with a piece of cheddar cheese I'm going to place my other piece of bread on there And I'm going to put a little butter up here I have my temperature on low And then you want to cover this with a lid that way the cheese will melt Then cook it to a nice golden brown All right, so here's our black bean burger. Let me cut it in half for you Just so you can see what it looks like on the inside Check that out Time for a bite. Don't you think I think so That is super delicious I think I like it better this way on bread with some butter and grilled as a patty melt Then as a hamburger This is much more interesting for me Or you can even eat it just plain and add some veggies to it and have a great meal If you enjoyed this recipe, I've got two more recipes for you to try that are vegan and gluten-free as well The first one down here is roasted vegetables with a homemade pesto sauce and a balsamic reduction This is to die for I hope you guys try that click that button and go check that out If you don't like that one Well, I've got another one over here for you right over here That one is the lemon creamy lemon cauliflower gnocchi Again, the flavors are so delicious. Check them out guys. We'll see you next time Thank you so much for watching and leave me a comment. Take care