Hey everybody.
Welcome to Hilah Cooking!
Today I'm going to share with you a recipe for bean burgers which are kind of like the
veggie burgers that you get in the frozen food section but healthier because you know
exactly what's going in them and it's not animal poop.
I shouldn't have said that.
This is a food show.
Anyway, Goldie might be pitter-pattering around the house today because she is unleashed wild
and so if you hear a little like pitter-patter, pitter-patter, that's Goldie, not my baby.
OK, cool.
So it looks like a lot of ingredients and it kind of is but it all gets mashed together
really quick and greasy.
So I've got some beans and I actually did cook these from fresh because I'm trying to
stay away from the canned stuff to protect my ovaries and stuff, just in case I ever
do want to have a baby.
Anyway, TMI.
OK, I'm going to go ahead and start mashing these beans up and I also got some oatmeal
and some wheat germ, some healthy stuff, some vegetables and this is like this recipe is
super versatile.
You could really substitute any kind of bean and you could use any kind of vegetables or
whatever, as long as the proportions are right.
So, OK, I'm going to go ahead and like mash these up in my bowl here.
OK.
So you could totally do this with a food processor but you all know I try not to use tools like
that just because maybe not everybody has it.
So I'm going to show you how to do it just with a short, flat spin such as this one.
So just you don't need to get them like pulverized but get about half of the beans pretty well
mashed because that's going to be what's holding everything together.
It's going to be like our bean glue and then sometimes I go like this.
It's not really very effective but it's kind of fun.
OK.
This is pretty well-mashed.
So see, there's a few that are whole but there's a lot of them that are mashed.
So, sweet.
Now I'm just going to mix all this other crap in.
Sunflower seeds.
You could use any kind of nut you want as long as they're chopped up pretty small.
Some grated carrot.
Again, you could use like grated sweet potato or some zucchini, whatever.
OK, some onion.
Kind of get that going and I'm going to add in a couple of tablespoons
of liquid aminos but you could use soy sauce or something else.
A little bit of hot sauce, some cumin, some chili powder and I've added a little bit of
cayenne pepper to that too.
Then here I've got a cup of oatmeal.
I'm going to start with putting a half cup in and mix it up and kind of see what our
consistency looks like.
All right.
I'm going to add some flour and a little bit of water too.
OK.
Cool.
So if you wanted to use -- if you were trying to make them gluten-free, you could use chickpea
flour or some gluten-free bread crumbs.
OK, I think that's probably it.
All right.
So anyway, moving on.
OK.
So this looks good.
OK, it doesn't really look good, I will admit that, but it's going to look good once it's
made into patties and fried because what doesn't look good once it has been fried.
So let's do that part next.
OK.
So I actually like let this sit for about 10 minutes just to let the oatmeal absorb
the liquid and it makes it a lot stickier and it makes this sound.
So I want to make patties and I've got some wheat germ that I'm going to bread them in
or coat them in.
You could use breadcrumbs or whatever, cornmeal probably.
So it's very sticky but just kind of compact it as best you can and then do a little like
that and a little like that.
It's like this and like this and like that, you all.
OK.
Then one more little like mashing all together and set it over here while we make all of
them.
Now I'm going to heat up my skillet and then cook them and then they will be all like crispy
and hot.
Delicious!
I will put in a little bit of oil and if you wanted to bake these, you totally could do
that too.
I will tell you how to do that later on the website.
I also recommend that you kind of like -- well after you made them into patties, just kind
of let them sit on a plate for a little while as long as you can because it's already like
kind of firming up even more.
It just makes it easier to cook.
OK.
Because these don't have any egg or anything, so there's no binding like that so much.
So they're pretty -- a little bit delicate.
But also cholesterol-free!
Yay!
OK.
Rad!
OK.
Maybe they're ready to flip.
Let's see.
Oh, that looks rad!
All right.
See?
It looked kind of weird before but now they look like golden brown and delicious.
Yay!
All right.
I'm going to redistribute my oil a little bit.
Yay!
OK, cool.
Let us get toasty up and then we will chow down.
Let's see how this side is doing.
Ooh!
Totally yumsers!
Let's see how this side is doing.
Whoa!
Double yumsers!
You guys, OK, cool.
I'm going to like turn these off I guess.
Cool.
I'm going to turn that off before I start off the smoke alarm again and yay!
Yay!
That's what I would sound like if I was a ghost and I was really excited.
I'm not a ghost.
OK, cool.
I'm going to put hot sauce on it because I like that and I'm out of ketchup.
Whoops!
Poor shopping.
OK, cool.
Wow, it's all crispy.
So hot.
Hmm, it's totally yummy and full of different textures from the nuts and the onions and
yay!
Awesome!
You totally try that.
It's really healthy and I hear people are doing this meatless Mondays thing now which
is really popular and this would be a great thing to try it for, so there.
OK.
See you guys later.
Say bye, Goldie.
She's not looking at you.