Easy Bean Burgers
Looking for a delicious, satisfying plant-based burger recipe? Say HELLO to our easy vegan bean burgers! And they're super easy to make!
These spicy bean burgers are just so packed with flavour and are a great healthy vegan alternative for burger night!
Made using a tasty combination of sweet potatoes, kidney beans and spiced onions, these vegan burger patties are delicious served on a burger roll with your favourite fresh burger toppings.
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Healthy – our vegan bean burgers are a great alternative to meat-based burgers and are packed with bean-y protein and delicious sweet potatoes which are packed with vitamins and minerals.
Budget Friendly - bean burgers are a cheap and easy meal to make so it's a great for sticking to a food budget.
Super Tasty - the sweetness from the sweet potatoes along with the peri peri spiced onions make these bean burgers really tasty. Plus you can vary the spices and seasoning to create different styles of burger.
Equipment Needed To Make Bean Burgers
- Chopping board
- Vegetable knife
- Saucepan with a lid
- Food processor (this is just to pulse the beans, you can use a stick blender, or potato masher instead)
- Mixing bowl
- Potato masher
- Frying pan
- Cooking spoon
Ingredients For Bean Burgers
You'll only need five ingredients to make these tasty kidney bean burgers - plus your rolls and chosen toppings!
- 1 onion - peeled and finely diced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoon peri peri seasoning - you can swap this for other seasonings - try Cajun, Italian or Fajita
- 2 large sweet potatoes - peeled and chopped into small chunks
- 400g can kidney beans
How To Make Bean Burgers
Our plant based patties are so simple to make - plus you can easily add in extras too if you like!
Step One - boil the sweet potatoes
- Put the sweet potato chunks into a saucepan and cover with boiling water. Bring the pan back to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer with the lid on for around 5 minutes or until the sweet potato chunks feel soft when you insert a knife.
- Drain them and put to one side.
Step Two - fry the onions with the peri peri seasoning
- Whilst the sweet potatoes are cooking, crack on with the onions - add the olive oil to a frying pan over a medium heat and fry the onions with the peri peri seasoning for around 5 minutes.
Step Three - make the bean burgers
- Blitz the kidney beans in the food processor just so they're chopped up a little. You can do with with a potato masher if you like.
- Tip the crushed kidney beans, cooked sweet potatoes and onions into a mixing bowl, add a pinch of salt if you like.
- Then mash everything together with the potato masher.
- When the bean burger mixture is cool enough to handle, divide it into four and mould into patties using your hands.
Cooks Note! If you're making these ahead of time, just let them cool, then keep in an air tight container in the fridge until ready to cook later that day. Just note, that they will take longer to cook from chilled.
Step Four - cook the bean burgers
- Fry the bean burgers in the frying pan you used to cook the onions in. Them they'll pick up extra peri peri flavours from the pan.
- Cook the burgers on each side for around 4-5 minutes a side. Check they're heated through properly and piping hot throughout before serving.
Step Five - serve the kidney bean burgers
- Slide the plant based burger patties onto the burger rolls and add your favourite toppings. We serve these with shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes and a big dollop of Gourmet Burger Kitchen house relish.
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Add Some Sides To Your Plate
Try serving your bean and sweet potato burgers alongside some delicious side dishes.
Make Bean Burgers Your Way
Add your own twist to our yummy vegan meal!
Go Spicy - add some extra chilli flakes to your peri peri seasoning for a hotter, spicier burger.
Add Extra Veggies - add in some extra vegetables - try squash, mushrooms, peas or corn.
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Easy Bean Burgers
A super easy kidney bean and sweet potato burger that's bursting with flavour!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 large sweet potatoes - peeled and chopped into chunks
- 1 onion - peeled and diced
- 2 teaspoon peri peri seasoning
- 400g can kidney beans
Instructions
- Put the sweet potato chunks into a saucepan and cover with boiling water. Bring the pan back to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer with the lid on for around 5 minutes or until the sweet potato chunks feel soft when you insert a knife.
- Drain them and put to one side.
- Whilst the sweet potatoes are cooking, crack on with the onions – add the olive oil to a frying pan over a medium heat and fry the onions with the peri peri seasoning for around 5 minutes.
- Blitz the kidney beans in the food processor just so they’re chopped up a little. You can do with with a potato masher if you like.
- Tip the crushed kidney beans, cooked sweet potatoes and onions into a mixing bowl, add a pinch of salt if you like.
- Then mash everything together with the potato masher.
- When the bean burger mixture is cool enough to handle, divide it into four and mould into patties using your hands.
- Fry the bean burgers in the frying pan you used to cook the onions in. Them they’ll pick up extra peri peri flavours from the pan.
- Cook the burgers on each side for around 4-5 minutes a side. Check they’re heated through properly and piping hot throughout before serving.
- Slide the plant based burger patties onto the burger rolls and add your favourite toppings.
Notes
To serve stuff into burger rolls and add the toppings of your choice.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 245Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 359mgCarbohydrates: 43gFiber: 9gSugar: 11gProtein: 10g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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Wendy is the creator of Daisies & Pie, a UK food blog sharing easy meals and home lifestyle tips since 2012
