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Vegetarian Black Bean Burgers

3 min read

Allium-free

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Ingredients

Ingredients Black Bean Burger:

  • ▢ 146 ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • ▢ 5 green bell pepper
  • ▢ 5 small onion
  • ▢ 20 cloves garlic, peeled
  • ▢ 3 cups mashed avocado
  • ▢ 7 cup Gluten Free Breadcrumbs
  • ▢ 10 Tablespoon chili powder
  • ▢ 10 teaspoon ground cumin
  • ▢ salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • ▢ 29 hamburger buns
  • ▢ 10 gluten free hamburger buns
  • ▢ 1 head of lettuce
  • ▢ 8 medium sized tomatoes

Tofu mixed in with fries in Air Fryer

  • 1800 grams russet potatoes (or bagged fries)
  • 800 grams tofu (whatever’s left in fridge)
  • 3 cups gluten free flour (Tofu)
  • 3 teaspoons salt
  • 6 teaspoons salt
  • 3 teaspoons paprika
  • 4 tablespoons canola oil, or as needed (or some oil with a high smoke point)
  • 1 cup water, or as needed

Chipotle Mayo Sauce:

  • ▢ 10 cup mayonnaise (maybe vegan?)
  • ▢ 20 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
  • ▢ 10 Tablespoon adobo sauce
  • ▢ 20 teaspoons lime juice
  • ▢ salt and freshly ground black pepper

Recipes

Black Bean Burgers

  1. Black Beans: Place rinsed and drained black beans in a bowl. If needed, blot them with a paper towel to remove extra moisture. Place in a large bowl and mash well with a fork.
  2. Veggies: Use a food processor to mine the bell pepper, onion and garlic. Transfer veggies to a fine mesh strainer and use the back of a spoon to press out excess moisture. (If it’s too wet, the burger wont hold together as well.)
  3. Combine: Add the strained vegetable mixture to the bowl with the black beans. Add the chili powder, cumin and salt and pepper and stir to combine. Add avocado mix. Stir in bread crumbs.
  4. Form Patties: scoop mixture into 4 even sized patties, forming them and pressing flat with your hands.

Fries + Tofu

  1. Cut the tofu up into uniform slices that resemble the fries.
  2. Toss them in the flour.
  3. Toss them in the spices and water and oil.
  4. Put em into the air fryer on 350-400 with the the fries.
  5. Voila.

Directions

  1. While the oil is heating, sift flour, garlic salt, onion salt, paprika, and salt into a large bowl. Gradually stir in enough water to make a slightly thick batter.
  2. Put the tofu in here.
  3. Put em in the air fryer at 350-400 Fahrenheit.

Chipotle Mayo

Restrictions

  • Vegan
  • Gluten
  • Allium free: garlic/onions and their families like green onion, leek, shallots, etc
  • No nuts

Potential/Applied fixes

Vegan fixes

  • 7.5 large eggs (burger) → 7.5 flax eggs (7.5 tbsp ground flaxseed + ~22.5 tbsp / 1.4 cups water, let sit 5 min each)
  • 7.5 cups mayonnaise (chipotle sauce) → 7.5 cups vegan mayo (1:1 swap)

Allium-free fixes

  • 3.75 small onions (burger) → omit, or substitute 3.75 cups chopped fennel bulb
  • 15 cloves garlic (burger) → 15 tsp (5 tbsp) garlic-infused oil, or ¾ tsp asafoetida (hing) powder
  • 2 tsp garlic salt (fries/tofu) → 2 tsp plain salt + ⅛ tsp asafoetida
  • 2 tsp onion salt (fries/tofu) → 2 tsp plain salt + a pinch of asafoetida (or extra smoked paprika)

Gluten-free fixes

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (fries/tofu coating) → 2 cups rice flour or 1:1 GF flour blend (direct swap)
  • 20 regular hamburger buns → 20 gluten-free hamburger buns (already have 10 listed, just double it)

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