15 Best Homemade Vegan Burger Recipes | Aglow Lifestyle (2024)

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What is a dirty vegan burger? ›

The Original Dirty Vegan Burger with a spicy twist. A 1/4lb Moving Mountains® patty split and grilled as two patties for extra crispness, topped with 2 slices of melted vegan cheddar, pickled cucumber, and caramelised onions. Served with shredded lettuce and our homemade spicy sauce in a soft vegan bun.

Spices and tomato paste: Smoked paprika, chili powder, salt, and pepper combine to make these burgers a little smoky and incredibly delicious. Tomato paste adds color, sweetness, and an umami flavor to the burgers (highly recommended!). Cooked rice: Adds more texture to the veggie burgers.

Common binding agents include flax eggs (a mixture of ground flaxseed and water), chia seeds, mashed potatoes, tapioca flour, or even your favorite nut butter. These ingredients help hold everything together and prevent your burger from crumbling.

One of the most common substitutes is breadcrumbs, but sometimes the breadcrumbs can fall off when the burgers are cooking if there are too many or they are too dry. Other popular substitutions for eggs include cornstarch, flour, ketchup, porridge oats, cracker crumbs, and ground flaxseed.

But through my Made by Lukas veggie burger business, I spent many, many hours cooking off free veggie burger samples for shoppers in frigid dairy departments of grocery stores, where I learned that one way to solve for mushy veggie burgers is to just cook them bit longer, and slower, on sightly lower heat, and to even ...

Amy's Organic California Veggie Burger

While Amy's has several veggie burger options, the California Veggie Burger is one of the company's healthiest options as it has a short ingredient list with mostly whole foods, along with 4 g of fiber and 150 calories per patty.

McPlant® A vegan burger made with a juicy plant-based patty co-developed with Beyond Meat® featuring vegan sandwich sauce, ketchup, mustard, onion, pickles, lettuce, tomato, and a vegan alternative to cheese in a sesame seed bun.

While both options may contain veggies, the key difference between vegan burgers and veggie burgers is that vegan burgers are made from a protein and are made to mimic the flavor and texture of actual meat while veggie burgers are not meant to evoke meat properties at all.

Researchers at Impossible Foods discovered that by adding heme to their plant-based burgers, they could capture a lot of the aromas we associate with meat. They call it their "magic ingredient," and, combined with yeast extract, it does seem to do a pretty good job.

Without a binder, your burger might completely crumble and fall apart the second it hits the grill or when you bite into it. → Follow this tip: Veggie burgers need a sturdy binder to hold everything together. This can be anything from eggs to a mixture of ground flax and water, wheat germ, breadcrumbs, or oats.

What is the best vegan binder for veggie burgers? ›

Mashed Avocado Makes the Best Veggie Burger Binder

Avocado is also a great choice for vegan burgers, when using an egg as a binder isn't an option, as well as gluten-free burgers. And because of its mild flavor, you won't actually taste the avocado, you'll simply be taking advantage of its great binding abilities.

Consider spices such as cayenne, cumin, black pepper, and cilantro for bean patties. For mushroom patties, try herbs like rosemary, thyme, and sage – or you could opt for our conveniently pre-seasoned Havarti cheese with Fine Herbs, perfect to speed up kitchen prep.

The very low fat content of the hamburger probably has something to do with it, but there are a couple of tricks you can use: Add 1 egg yolk per pound of hamburger. It won't add appreciably to the fat content and will bind the meat beautifully.

Bind the patty together

If you're going for a leaner meat or adding bulky ingredients (eg spring onions, onions, chillies), add an egg and a handful of breadcrumbs to bind the burgers.