Adapted from a recipe I got from (I think) Yahoo! ages ago.
2 c coarsely mashed cooked sweet potato
1 c black beans (drained and rinsed if canned)
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 t paprika
1 t salt
1 t onion powder
1/2 t pepper
1/8 t cumin
1/3 c quick (1 minute) oats, or panko
1/3 c flour
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2-3 T olive oil
Coarsely mash beans. Add and mash in sweet potato flesh. Add garlic, spices, oats/panko, egg, and flour. Mix and chill for 15-20 minutes.
Heat skillet over medium and add 2 T of olive oil.
Form mix into equal patties. (I scoop out using a 1/3 cup and then shape, which typically yields 6 patties. The original recipe called for 4 equal patties, but I had trouble getting those to cook through w/o overbrowning. You do you.)
Place patties in hot pan. Cook 5-6 minutes, until fully cooked and golden. Note: These times are from the 4-patty recipe. You may need to adjust for smaller burgers.
Add more oil if needed and flip. Cook 5-6 more minutes.
Of course, you can play with the seasoning mix however you want. This batch I added ~1/2 t of ground turmeric and a dash of cayenne. You can also switch out the beans. The original recipe actually called for cannellini beans; they worked fine, but I decided to try black beans once for the color contrast and haven’t looked back.
I can eat almost all of those ingredients! I’ll make something similar with the kids and see how everybody likes it. They’ve been cooking their own meals since I went back to work and seem bored with what they know how to do. These look good and not too tricky. Customizable too!
I’m not a big cook, so if they were super tricky, they’d never have made it into my repeat file. Though I confess what usually happens is I plan to make them and then get lazy and just roast up the potatoes to eat like baked potatoes or browned up as hashbrowns
I made some! I made the recipe as written, but used a scoop to make mini burgers (I got 33 out of my mix) and baked them on an oiled cookie sheet. They have kind of a falafel texture this way, and I’m going to put them in a pita with lettuce and sriracha ranch.
