Black Bean Burger Bowls.

These black bean burger bowls are so delish! A crispy smashed black bean burger with cheddar cheese on top of crisp romaine, tomatoes, red onion and a dill pickle vinaigrette. Yum!

Now this is how I like my dinner to look!

These black bean burger bowls have a simple base of lettuce, tomato and pickled onions, only to be topped with cheesy black bean burgers, your favorite condiments and pickle dressing!

Yep yep yep. Give me alllll the pickle dressing. 

I LOVE a good burger bowl or burger salad. There is something so refreshing about the burger on top of crisp lettuce with lots of toppings. And while I normally make these with beef burgers, lately I’ve been doing a black bean version.

And it’s fabulous! 

This burger recipe comes from my black bean smashburgers and oh my gosh, it’s excellent. I love how it has a bit of texture and really comes across as quite similar to a beef burger. 

The ingredients are also really simple and there is some grated cheese in there – so it holds together nicely in the pan. I like to smash them down into the pan a bit to get those crispy crunchy edges. Nothing better than that! 

Once the burgers are cooked, I throw some more cheese on top. Since I have cheese IN the burger and ON the burger, I don’t add cheese to the salad bowl.

I realize this is shocking since cheese is my entire personality. So add it if you wish! I find that it doesn’t really need more. 

Of course, any of your other favorite burger toppings can find their way into this bowl. Or condiments. I like a drizzle of mustard. I like mustard just as much as I like pickles – in fact, I’d like to drizzle about three kinds of mustard on this bowl!

You can always use ketchup. Even BBQ sauce or honey mustard. Or a good burger sauce, like my howsweeteats house sauce. Sometimes I’ll use that as an extra drizzle of dressing and it’s really good.

But speaking of the dressing! 

Pickles are my love language. 

Yes, I live for pickles. I’ve loved them since I first started eating!

This pickle vinaigrette is one of my go-tos and has been for YEARS. It’s so tangy and pickle-y and briney and is perfect if you’re a huge pickle lover like I am. 

Not only do I love the flavors in this bowl, but I adore the texture. There is so much crisp, refreshing texture, crunchy bites too, and paired with the zippy dressing?

Dreamy! (more…)

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