Black Bean Vegetarian Burger

These were SO good and my kids didn’t even know they were made out of beans!

• 2 cups black beans, mashed up
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 3 TBLS salsa
• 1 egg
• 1 Cup cooked rice (brown or white)
• Mix all ingredient together and make patties. Cook on griddle or pan until brown on top. Add lettuce, tomatoes, and other hamburger condiments to finished patties and bun.

We tested out the White Bean Cookies next with pureed white beans. The kids knew about the beans because they helped me make them. They were really good. We doubled the recipe and froze a bunch {but those are also all gone now- my husband is a cookie monster, and I was also!}

Flower Tacos

Tonight for dinner I put the beans to the ultimate test and made this mixed with this. Flower Tacos is what we called them. I used corn tortillas which we usually don't like, but baking them made them really good. Then I made the Bean Dip and used kidney beans. My kids still will not eat an actual bean so I did have to puree them. Then we baked them and topped them with meat, cheese, lettuce, baby tomatoes and ranch! They were delicious, but I am sad to say my boys did NOT eat them. I will try again and again until they do though!! My next goal is to get them to like tomatoes. I think that is one of the reason they didn't want to touch these.