Kitchen Therapy

I took out some of my aggression in the kitchen this afternoon making some delightful black bean burgers.

I used Heather’s black bean burger recipe as a basis to start, but with the following substitutions.  I used a whole can of beans to make two giant patties. I used 1 tbsp flax and 3 tbsp water for my flax egg. No onion in the veggie drawer, so I omitted that. I used cumin, garlic powder, and cayenne, but more to compensate for more burgeriness. No bread crumbs, so I used corn meal (as much as it took for the burgers to no longer be sticky).  And I didn’t have any Worcestershire sauce, so I used Bragg’s Liquid Aminos.

Mashing these guys up was pretty therapeutic.

Once I had my patties formed, I remembered Mama Pea making cheeze stuffed burgers, so I whipped up some hummus, True Lemon (mixed in a bit of water), and nutritional yeast sauce.

Side note:  I love True Lemon, so much that I purchased True Lime and True Orange as well.  These came in the mail yesterday and I am super stoked about trying out the new flavors.  (They were having a holiday free shipping/free box offer, hence the plethora of stuff.  Plus, I mean… go big or go home, right?)

Once I had my cheeze sauce mixed up, I added it to the patties and covered the sauce portion with more patty mixture.

Cooked in an olive oil sprayed pan for about 5-7 minutes on each side, and then served with some BBQ sauce and pickled jalapenos.

Very comforting on this overcast and blah day.  And I’m not going to lie, I ate the other patty within an hour of eating the first one.  I had to.  It was perfect.  🙂

❤ C