Portobello Black Bean Burgers with Lemon and Garlic Recipe

Portobello Black Bean Burgers with Lemon and Garlic Recipe

Burgers are the ultimate craving food and of late, an increasingly acceptable option for a romantic dinner. If satiety is the way to someone’s heart, these burgers are the way to go! Not only are they scrumptious and filling, they are also sneakily healthy, meaning you won’t get that after-burger bloat that so many of us regret after tucking in. Enjoy them with fancy pants sweet potato fries and you are ready for a romantic meal in.

Serves: 2

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Lemon and Garlic Aioli

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Portobello Black Bean Burgers with Lemon and Garlic Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

Not only are these burgers scrumptious and filling, they are also sneakily healthy, meaning you won’t get that after-burger bloat that so many of us regret after tucking in.


Servings

2

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • Black Bean Burgers
  • ½ cup sunflower seeds
  • ½ cup pepitas
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 400g tin black beans, rinsed & drained
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • ½ chilli, chopped
  • ½ tsp cayenne pepper
  • 2 tbsp cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil
  • Celtic sea salt & freshly ground black pepper

Method


  • Preheat oven to 200°C and lightly grease baking tray.
  • To make burgers, place seeds in food processor and grind until coarsely chopped.
  • Add carrot to food processor and mix
for 10 secs. Add ¾ of black beans, onion, spices, olive oil and salt and pepper, then mix again for 10 secs.
  • Add remaining beans to mixture. Use hands to form small patties and place on baking tray. Bake for about 20 mins.
  • Make Lemon and Garlic Aioli (recipe below).
  • To assemble burgers, place one mushroom on plate and top with burger, then add rocket, onion, tomato and cucumber and top with aioli.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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