Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers

Name: Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 16 min
Total time: 26 min
Ingredients: 400 g Cooked black turtle beans (200g raw weight (or just under 2 tins of black beans)); ½ Egg (lightly beaten); ½ Red onion (large, grated); 2 Cloves garlic (crushed); 165 g Tin of sweetcorn; 1 Slice of wholemeal bread (whizzed into breadcrumbs); 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaf (cilantro) (I used frozen); 50 g extra mature Cheddar cheese (grated); 1 tbsp sriracha sauce or to taste (hot chilli sauce); ½ tsp cayenne Pepper; Salt & Pepper; flour for dusting; 125 ml rapeseed oil

Updated 14 March 2024 Published 25 June 2015 80 Comments

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Vegetarian Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers have added sweetcorn, Cheddar cheese, sriracha and coriander etc. So delicious, even meat eaters will love them!

Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers, better than beef burgers! - Fab Food 4 All

The other day I came across a bag of black turtle beans that had recently gone out of date at the back of my cupboard.

I’d been sent them last year and at the time I created some delicious Flavours of Brazil Turkey Burgers with Bacon and Pineapple.

So a huge wave of guilt came over me for allowing the beans to languish unloved for all this time.

They looked in pristine condition so I decided that the best course of action would be to cook them all and then I could use them to make something and freeze the rest for another day.

So after a 12-hour soak, I boiled the beans up and after a busy day didn’t feel in the mood for cooking but knew I had to do something.

So I decided to make Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers as I’d made chickpea ones before which were delicious.

I started Googling recipes and just grew a little frustrated as they all seemed to mention frying onions first for 10 minutes and adding them to the burgers.

I wasn’t in the mood for a lot of fuss so decided to work on the principle that these were like Frikadeller which uses grated onion.

Then I just needed to add some flavour which came in the form of sweetcorn, sriracha sauce (a new favourite here), cayenne pepper and some chopped coriander.

To make these burgers extra yummy I decided to add some grated mature cheddar.

I was tempted to taste the raw mixture but as it contained raw egg I decided against it so had to wait until the burgers had cooked to know if they were any good.

Well, I needn’t have worried as my family loved them. My hubby even said he preferred them to beef burgers (a closet vegetarian perhaps)?!

I was going to put the rest of the beans in the freezer but I’ve been asked if we can have them again tonight which suits me as I have the rest of a large tin of sweetcorn to use up.

These burgers are so easy to make and much healthier than a beef burger! I know we will be having these often now as they’re such a hit.

Using a bag of beans is much cheaper than buying them tinned and I would advise cooking the whole bag up and freezing what you don’t use which saves on your fuel bill.

More Recipes Using Black Turtle Beans

I do hope you make these quick and easy Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers as I can’t recommend them highly enough and if you do cook up a whole bag of black turtle beans then here are some ideas of how to use the rest:

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