Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Baked Vegan Pineapple Black Bean Burgers

I love black beans. I’ve passed the love onto Kaylin…she can house them! Then her entire face gets covered in black bean “juice”. We call her the coal miner ;). I wanted to make up a batch of black bean burgers, but I wanted them to be on the lighter side:

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Baked Vegan Pineapple Black Bean Burgers

Ingredients:

  • 15 oz black beans, drained and rinsed (I used Bush’s low sodium- always do!)
  • Crushed pineapple in pineapple juice
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped red onion
  • 1/2 cup panko (or bread crumbs)
  • 1/8-1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
  • 1 tablespoon ground flax seed

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a large bowl, mash the black beans to desired texture using a fork or potato masher (I like mine a little on the chunkier side). Add 2 tablespoons of the crushed pineapple in pineapple juice, onion, bread crumbs, ground red pepper, and flax seed. Mix until just combined. Form into 4 burgers.

Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the burgers on the paper. Bake for 8 minutes on each side.

I used the burgers to make burger bowls. For the bowls,I  mixed some of the remaining crushed pineapple in with cooked brown rice. I topped the rice with steamed vegetables, the black bean burgers, and avocado. mmmm….

Pre-bake:

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In the bowl, pre-avocado.

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These were super tasty. Are you a bean burger fan??

Sunday, May 19, 2013

My Favorite Breakfast & Meal Plan

OK! I swear, I’m getting back on track with blogging this week! Did you have a nice weekend? This weekend was almost completely unplanned for us…which was amazing! Friday night, we went to dinner with friends and did a little shopping.

Saturday morning, I had step and then went to the farmers market:

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Saturday afternoon, we got a bundle done around the house and then went swimming at Josh’s parents house:

 IMG_4001Saturday night was an easy dinner/relaxing at home. 

Sunday morning, we went to my favorite breakfast spot.

 IMG_4006 We hadn’t been there in a while and I was missing it! We started off with coffee and then Josh/Kaylin/I split a fruit parfait & oatmeal. SO yum. I didn’t get many pictures because we were balancing the toddler zoo:

IMG_4007 Sunday afternoon, I went for an easy run and then got a few more things done around the house. It was a perfect weekend!

This weeks meal plan:

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IMG_4017   Josh and I are huge fans of this recipe! I cannot wait to make it again! Thank you Maria!!

Tell me something you’re planning to eat this week.