Prep Time: 20 minutes | Cook Time:  20 minutes | Total Time:  40 minutes

Submitted By: Lesley Levinski

Ingredients:

½ cup cooked quinoa
1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
1 can red kidney beans (drained and rinsed)
1tsp chili powder or red pepper flakes
2 tsp cumin
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp turmeric
2 tbsp tamari sauce
½ tsp salt
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp onion powder
¼ sesame seeds (black or white)

Directions:

• Cook quinoa and set aside.
• Mash beans or process in a food processor.
• Add all remaining burger ingredients including the quinoa and combine well.
• Take a handful of bean mixture and shape into a burger patty and place on a lined baking tray, (can also spray tray with coconut oil), making about 8 burgers.
• Bake in the oven for 10 minutes on each side, carefully flipping.
• Important: once out of oven,  let patties rest for 10 minutes, flip them and cool for another 10 minutes.
• Assemble your burger with fresh ingredients like spinach, tomato, avocado, grated beets or carrots, sprouts, onion, and drizzle your favourite dressing (tahini, sriracha mayo, hot sauce, dijon mustard, etc.) over the burger.  Place on a bun, pita, or piece of Boston lettuce. ENJOY!!

Optional Ingredients:
Chickpeas or cannoli beans can be used instead of kidney beans.  Flaxseed can be used instead of sesame seeds. Rice or buckwheat can be used instead of quinoa.  Jalapeno pepper chopped finely for more spice in the mixture is always tasty 😀

Recipe Notes:
For a complete meal, roast some sweet potatoes in the oven while you bake these burgers and voila, a super healthy way to enjoy a burger and fries!! A small spinach and arugula salad on the side would go amazingly well too 😉

Important Note:
To re-heat do not microwave. Heat in toaster oven or double broiler, so patties don’t dry out.