I like to batch cook on weekends. Usually I make a big pot of brown rice with quinoa and a pot of beans that I can attack all week long. It was pretty hot out all weekend so I started thinking summer thoughts. I hadn't made any veggie burgers for some time so why not throw it all out there and see what sticks to the wall!
The pressure cooker is ideal for this. I had already made a pot of red beans, so now all I had to do was come up with something to stick them together and look appetizing. They smell really good too!
If there is anything in the list of seasoning ingredients that you don't like, there is always an alternative. One is to just leave it out! Everything will be fine. Add whatever you like to make it your own. Don't sweat the small stuff!!!
Besides the brown rice, quinoa, corn and beans, I know there are a lot of ingredients, but once you gather them, its just a matter of throwing them in the blender and mashing it all together.
Whole Food Plant Based No Oil
Veggie-Burgers
2 cups brown rice, 1 cup quinoa, 6 cups water, 1T onion powder, 2t smoked paprika in the pressure cooker on multigrain setting.
In the blender: 4 Roma tomatoes, 6 mushrooms, 2 cups kale, 1 medium onion, 4 cloves garlic, 1T yellow mustard, 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, 1/4 t Tabasco sauce, 2T date paste, 1 roasted beet, and 1/3 cup low sodium tamari blended to a paste.
Put it all in a large mixing bowl. Add 2 cups of cooked red beans, 3 cups of dry quick oats, a pinch of black pepper, 1 cup of roasted corn kernels and mash it all together with a potato masher. (Season to taste with more tamari, salt, smoked paprika, liquid smoke, onion powder or whatever your taste buds choose)
Let it sit for at least an hour. I put it in the fridge covered over night to thicken.Wet your hands, make patties, put them on a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Bake at 375F for 45 min. Take it out and let it cool for 15 min to release from the paper. Flip them and cook for 15 more minutes.
Baste them with your favorite BBQ sauce and put them on the BBQ grill, medium heat, for about 3min to add grill marks.
Plop them on a whole wheat bun, add pickles, tomato, onions, catsup, coleslaw, relish, salsa, guacamole, pickled peppers, mustard...... what ever you want! No guilt!!!
