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Really Awesome Black Bean Burgers

On YouTube as “Really Awesome Black Bean Burgers | Kenji's Cooking Show”

  • Original burger
  • July 2020
  • 24:52
  • 1.8M views

One of Kenji’s most popular recipes of the decade: canned black beans baked in the oven to dry them out before chopping, then mixed with onion, garlic, cashews and chipotle into a vegetarian patty, served with a chipotle mayo.

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What goes in

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  • oven-dried black bean patty
  • onion
  • garlic
  • cashews
  • chipotle
  • chipotle mayo

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