Black bean burgers

[WHT]

Black Bean Burgers

• Packet dry black beans
  
  
• Onion
  
  
• Mushrooms
  
  
• Breadcrumbs (I used 3 slices of wholemeal bread whizzed in a blender!)
  
  
• 2 eggs

*Salt

*Onion powder

*Garlic granules

*Cumin

*Turmeric

*Mixed herbs

*Mixed spices


Empty black beans into a pan and let soak overnight. After they’ve soaked then bring them to the boil and let simmer for 1 hour. You can use water or STOCK to boil the beans in. Let cool before mashing them up roughly with a potato masher.


Cut and chop up the onion and mushrooms.

Beat 2 eggs.


Add all ingredients together and drizzle over the beaten egg and mix.

Add as much or as little *seasoning* as you like; add and mix in the breadcrumbs and mix well together.


Take some of the mixture and roll around in balls and flatten into patties/ burger shape. You can either cook them as they are or you could dip them in egg wash and breadcrumbs and slap some cheese over the top of them if you want! Add your own twist.


One bag of dry black beans (weight I can’t say as threw out the packet!) allowed me to make 7 burgers and keep half the beans for freezing.

 

[Drummer]

And the carb count?

 

[WHT]

And the carb count?

Sorry Drummer; I'm not carb counting....!!!! Just cutting back on carbs.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

I don't carb count either.
They look an excellent choice though, thanks.

 

[Drummer]

Are you sure?
They seem rather high in carbs as there are 7 gm of carbs in each burger just from the bread.
Adding in the beans and onion would seem to make one burger more carb heavy than many of my meals.

 

[nonethewiser]

They look delicious, must try this as alternative to meat.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

I'll be buying the beans today!
Meat free burgers are a good choice.

 

[Carolg]

They look delicious. Thanks for sharing

 

[WHT]

The local council run a WELLBEING scheme; which I've been attending. Never knew about 'black beans' till it was discussed. Thought would give them a try and commit myself to do something positive - foodwise.

 

[Matt Cycle]

They look very nice. 🙂 Rough carb count for 7 burgers per burger would be 7g for the bread, around 5g for the beans and the onion is naff all. So 12g per burger. I'm sure most people whatever type they have could accommodate that.

 

[Drummer]

As beans are about 2/3rds carb by weight, if you think 35gm of carbs from beans went into the mix - that would be about 60 or 70 gm of beans - dry weight.
As the recipe gives the amount as half a pack - that isn't a very big packet. I'd be interested in the pack size @WHT to get a better estimate.
The onion would add at least one carb per burger - for accuracy.
As I ate two large burgers for dinner last night, with veges and a dessert with a carb count under 30 gm for everything, adding in another 24gm of carbs would take me way over my 40gm limit, for a direct substitution

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Not that high.
I think you may be including fibre in the total carb content there.

Still low enough for me either way, and healthier than meat.

 

[SB2015]

On the theme of black beans, there is black bean spaghetti which is great lower carb option to carry the bolognaise.

 

[mikeyB]

More carbs than a well made meat burger, though if the point is to be vegetarian they sound quite tasty, if a tad flatulogenic.

There’s no need to use black bean spaghetti to reduce carbs. If you cook ordinary spaghetti the day before you need it, then either freeze it or keep it in the coldest part of the fridge, the starch forms more complex molecules that that can’t be digested. Instant low carb spag. Make Lasagne the day before you need it, and stick it in the freezer, the same thing happens.