Quinoa & Black Bean Veggie Burgers with Chipotle Crema and Avocado

With this recipe, your long search for an amazing homemade veggie burger can finally come to an end.

With quinoa, beans, pecans, and roasted veggies, this burger packs just as much nutrition as it does flavor.

The quinoa, nuts, and beans are all full of protein and fiber so this will not be one of those limp veggie burgers that leaves you feeling hungry and dissatisfied.

These burgers have a great variety of vegetables, consisting of red onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, and poblano peppers.

The poblano peppers add a lovely subtle heat and terrific smokiness to the burgers while a blend of herbs and spices like cumin, chili powder, and cilantro give them a tantalizing southwestern flavor profile.

The most flavorful way to cook the vegetables is to throw them under the broiler for a few minutes then chop them up into chunks. However, if you prefer, you can chop them all and saut them together.

To accompany the burgers is a simple but very tasty chipotle crema, consisting of nothing more than sour cream, chipotles in adobo, lime juice, salt, and pepper. Fresh sliced avocado and mixed greens are added for some creaminess and fresh crunch.

Feel free to add cheese, your favorite hot sauce, pickles, or any other condiments you like to these burgers. In fact, if you have any pickled onions leftover from yesterday, they would be great to add to these burgers.

Veggie Burgers

Using quinoa, roasted vegetables, beans, and nuts is a wonderful way to build healthy, tasty, hearty veggie burgers. The roasted vegetables and quinoa are bound together with pureed beans and pulverized nuts to make meaty, satisfying patties.

This particular recipe takes a southwest twist on the burgers, but theyre certainly customizable. You can use different vegetables, different spices, and different herbs to switch these burgers up.

Try adding carrots, corn, cauliflower, squash, celery, tomatoes, cowboy candy or whatever other vegetables you like.

Instead of seasoning them with chili and cilantro like we're doing today, you can add ginger and turmeric to give them an Indian twist, add zaatar and mint to take them to the Middle East, or roasted garlic and basil will yield delicious Italian veggie burgers.

You can also change up the beans in the recipe with different beans like cannellini beans, pinto beans, navy beans, or chickpeas. As long as you use the beans and nuts to bind together the patties, theres no limit to what you can do with homemade veggie burgers.