Vegan Black Bean Burgers

Ingredients

• 2 slices bread whole-wheat
• 15 ounce black beans drained and rinsed canned
• 3 tablespoons chile-garlic sauce to taste sriracha® (such as )
• 1 teaspoon chili powder 
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch 
• 1 tablespoon garlic minced
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin 
• 0.3 teaspoon ground pepper black
• 0.3 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon seafood seasoning old bay® (such as )
• 0.3 cup onion sweet chopped
• 1 tablespoon warm water 

Equipment

• bowl
• baking sheet
• oven
• whisk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
2. Mash black beans in a bowl; add onion, garlic, carrots, and green bell pepper.
3. Mix.
4. Whisk cornstarch, water, chile-garlic sauce, chili powder, cumin, seafood seasoning, salt, and black pepper together in a separate small bowl. Stir cornstarch mixture into black bean mixture.
5. Mix whole-wheat bread into bean mixture. Stir flour, 1/4 cup at a time, into bean mixture until a sticky batter forms.
6. Spoon 'burger-sized' mounds of batter onto the prepared baking sheet, about a 3/4-inch thickness per mound. Shape into burgers.
7. Bake in the preheated oven until cooked in the center and crisp in the outside, about 10 minutes on each side.