A tastier and healthier twist to your favorite Burger King sandwich. It serves a big and thick seasoned patty filled with vegetables, beans, and oats topped with lettuce, tomato, swiss cheese, and cucumber slices, all inside your hamburger buns.
Preparation:
15mins
Cooking:
30mins
Total:
1hr15mins
Serves:
6
Ingredients
For Veggie Patty:
1cupwalnutsroasted and chopped
8ozmushrooms of your choice(like buttons, shiitakes, creminis, or portobellos), fresh and chopped
5tbspolive oildivided
¼tspdried thyme
2tbspsoy sauce
5½ozred onionsdiced
2garlic clovesminced
4ozbell peppers of your choicechopped
2tbsptomato paste
¼cupred winediced
½cupall purpose flourroasted
1cupblack beanscanned and drained
1cupbrown ricecooked
1tbspmayonnaisepreferably vegan
1tspliquid smoke
1tspground cumin
½cupbarbeque saucepreferably vegan, for basting
Burger assembly:
hamburger buns
tsptomatoesthinly sliced
green ice lettuceor any lettuce of your choice, sliced
red onionsthinly sliced into rings
cheese of your choicesliced, preferably vegan
mayonnaisepreferably vegan
wooden skewers
To serve:
potato friesor onion rings
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F and grease a baking sheet.
Heat 1½ tablespoons of olive oil in a wide skillet over medium heat.
Add the mushrooms, walnuts, and thyme.
Saute for roughly 5 to 8 minutes until all moisture has completely evaporated while stirring frequently.
Add the soy sauce and cumin. Continue sauteing until the soy sauce has completely been absorbed by the mushrooms then set aside.
In another wide skillet, heat up another 1½ tablespoons of oil over medium heat. Add the onions, garlic, and bell peppers then saute until translucent.
Next, add the tomato paste and beans and roast briefly.
Deglaze with red wine and reduce briefly. Transfer this into a food processor and puree until smooth. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine your cooked rice, mayonnaise, liquid smoke, roasted flour, cooked mushroom mixture, and pureed vegetable mixture. Mix until evenly incorporated.
Form your mixture into 5 to 6 ounces of patties, then place these onto a greased baking sheet, apart from each other.
Transfer your patties to a chilled area and allow them to firm up for at least 30 minutes.
In a wide skillet, heat remaining oil over medium-high heat. Add your patties and sear for roughly 3 to 5 minutes or until golden brown on both sides. You may need to add more oil as needed.
Place your seared patties onto your baking sheet and brush these with barbeque sauce.
Roast for another 3 to 5 minutes until fully cooked. Toast your buns together while waiting.
Add the sliced cheese. If using any shredded cheese, sprinkle roughly 3 tablespoons per burger and broil until melted.
Assemble your veggie burger by spreading roughly 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise on both buns.
Place roughly ¼ ounce of lettuce, then the veggie burger, and 1 ounce of tomatoes and onions per sandwich, before covering with the top bun.
Serve with either onions or potato fries.
Recipe Notes
If you are vegan, you can opt for chia eggs or flax eggs as a binder instead.
To make chia eggs: Add 1 tablespoon of chia seeds in a small bowl, then add 3 tablespoons of water and wait for 5 minutes.
To make flax eggs: Mix 1 tablespoon of flaxseed meal and 3 tablespoons of water in a small bowl and chill for 15 minutes.