Lentil Black Rice Veggie Burgers

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups water (divided into 2 cups each)
• 1 cup lentils (do not soak ahead of time!)
• 1 cup black rice
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic (2 cloves, mashed and minced but i use the liquidy stuff)
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt (or sea salt)
• 2 teaspoons tahini
• 3/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
• 1/4 teaspoon mustard (dry powdered mustard, not wet)
• 1 dash oregano
• 1/4 cup peas
• 1/4 cup carrot
• 1/4 cup broccoli (i used the very fine chopped broccoli from the freezer section, florets are too big)
• 1/4 cup corn
• 1/2 cup flour

Recipe

• 1 be ready for some simultaneous burner action! get two saucepans ready with the 4 cups of water, 2 cups in each.
• 2 put the 1/4 tsp table salt in the one that you're going to cook the rice inches.
• 3 put the rice in the boiling salted water, and stir in 1 tbsp olive oil. mix it up perfectly then cover.
• 4 in the other pot, put the lentils inches.
• 5 cover both pots, and set the timer for 20 minutes.
• 6 you're going to leave the rice alone until the time's up-- but check on the lentils and stir them every 5 minutes, covering when done.
• 7 when the time's up, drain the lentils about halfway. put them in a large mixing bowl.
• 8 for the rice, turn the burner off and let it sit there for a few minutes.
• 9 drain and rinse the rice-- now, you're going to see a lot of purple/black liquid come out. don't be alarmed, this is natural from black rice, not a manufactured dye or anything.
• 10 put the rice in with the lentils, and mix the bowl up.
• 11 with a potato masher, mash up the contents as best as you can- mash and stir constantly, and get most of it mashed up really well but leave a lot of whole pieces of rice and lentil in there for texture.
• 12 stir in the minced garlic, kosher salt, and tahini until perfectly melded.
• 13 add the 3/4 cup flour and stir together, the mixture should be stickier now.
• 14 add the dry seasoning ingredients to the mixture and blend together.
• 15 put the veggies into the mixture and mix up.
• 16 put the remaining 1/2 cup flour into the bowl and mix it up, so it's thick and pasty now.
• 17 let the mixture sit for about 10 minutes, and while it's doing that preheat the oven to 350 and make sure the rack is in the center.
• 18 with your hands, form patties about 4-5" and put directly onto a cookie/baking sheet greased with cooking spray.
• 19 bake for 15 minutes. (this part took me twice as long because i only had room for 6 patties with my convection oven.).