Home Cookin': Black Bean Burger with Cilantro-Lime Mayo

Behold the enemy.

The blog has been a bit quiet lately, due in no small part to some dietary changes around our household.  My wife has committed to a life of vegetarianism and the rest of us are going along for the ride, sometimes begrudgingly, often times (believe it or not) excitedly.

Our once meat-centric diet has now been turned upside down.  Our chicken parmesan is now eggplant parm (not even fried, Oy vey zmir), our hoisin chicken is now tofu’d up.  Bok choy, kale, beets, collard greens and kohlrabi are now frequent visitors to our kitchen, and along with various seeds, end up in a dizzying array of smoothies, juices and soups.

The burger shown above came to us by way of CuisineNie, who borrowed it from the Cookin’ Canuck (recipe).  This darn tasty twist on the traditional veggie burger draws “beefy heft” from a combination of black beans, brown rice, onions, jalapenos and garlic.  A cilantro lime mayo and a slew of avocado slices gave it a nice creamy finish.  It was completely filling and we used some of the leftover patties to make other variations which were equally as satisfying.   (The mini peppers stuffed with quinoa in the background were pretty good, too.  No recipe for those, just improvised with a bunch of ingredients from our CSA share.)

For those of you looking for burger reviews of the beef variety, have no fear.  I will (and have) fall off the wagon, plus I have tons of photos and half-written reviews to get to.  Stay tuned for posts on some great new burgers in Philly and the ‘burbs, as well as a few from our recent travels.

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