Step 1

Heat some oil in a large pan and sauté the onion for 2-3 minutes. Then add the mushrooms and the garlic. Cook for 3 more minutes.

Step 2

Rinse the black beans. In a large bowl, mash the black beans with a fork, leaving some black beans partially intact for texture. Add the rest of the ingredients and combine well using your hands. Either form four large or six smaller burger patties.

Step 3

You can either heat some oil in a pan and cook the burger patties for 2-3 minutes on each side or you could make them on the grill.

Step 4

Alternatively, you could also make them in the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 °F, line a baking sheet with parchment paper and put the patties on top. Bake the black bean patties for about 15 minutes. Carefully flip them halfway through the baking time.

Step 5

Serve them on burger bun (I used a whole wheat one) with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and red onion.

Step 6

For the sauce, you could either use ketchup and mustard or BBQ sauce. Or you could try my vegan sriracha mayonnaise, which I also like to use for this vegan black bean burger. I originally made the sriracha mayo for my red lentil potato fritters, so just scroll down to the recipe box in this post.