Choose Your Own Adventure Veggie Burgers
Jenny Dunklee | The Lazy Vegan Baker: 
Recipe type: Dinner
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Serves: 8
 
Choose Your Own Adventure Veggie Burgers (makes approximately 8 burgers)
Ingredients
  • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
  • 1 onion, peeled & chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and diced
  • 2½ cups veggies **
  • 2 15 oz cans beans, drained (3 cups)
  • 1 cup nuts
  • 1 cup breadcrumbs (gluten-free or regular)
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • any spices you want, to taste
Instructions
  1. In a medium saute pan, heat the oil over med-low for a minute, then add the onions, garlic and veggies (if you are sauteing them). Cook until onions are translucent and veggies are thoroughly cooked, 6-8 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile, in a food processor pulse the beans in individual batches, one kind at a time and then add to a medium mixing bowl. You want them to be small pea size chunks and smaller, put not pureed, so to add texture to the burgers.
  3. **You can do all the chopping of the beans, nuts & saute by hand if you don't have a food processor.**
  4. Next pulse the nuts 10 seconds, again to small pieces and add them to the bowl.
  5. Then pulse the onion saute and add it to the bowl.
  6. If you baked or roasted your veggies, either mash them or give them a few pulses in the food processor so they are pea size and broken up a bit.
  7. Add the breadcrumbs, salt, pepper and spices and mix together thoroughly.
  8. You should be able to form the mix into cohesive balls. You can add more breadcrumbs if needed.
  9. I use a ½ cup measuring cup to measure out the burger mix, then form them into patties.
  10. Pan fry: Fry in a couple tablespoons of oil, 8 minutes each side until browned and crispy tops.
  11. Bake: Bake at 400F on a lightly oiled sheet pan for 12 minutes, then flip and bake for another 12 minutes. I also like to spray the top of the burgers lightly with cooking spray to get that crispy pan fried like texture.
  12. Refrigerate: Can be kept uncooked in the fridge for 4-5 days before cooking.
  13. Freeze: Separate patties with parchment paper between each one, then wrap in tinfoil.
  14. To bake from frozen: Bake on a lightly oiled sheet pan at 425F, 15 minutes, then flip and bake for another 15 minutes.
Notes
** You can saute your veggies with the onions or you can roast/bake them ahead of time. When I use mushrooms or peppers, I usually saute them. Eggplant and sweet potato, I bake whole ahead of time and scoop out and mash what I need. But they could also be diced and roasted. Or diced and sauteed. It's up to you! Just make sure it's 2½ cups you're using :-).
Recipe by The Lazy Vegan Baker at https://thelazyveganbaker.com/2016/04/21/choose-your-own-adventure-veggie-burgers/