Black Bean Burgers

Caleb asked for a veggie burger and sweet potato fries for his birthday meal. a week plus later, i delivered. found some recipes online that i was very happy with and will definitely use again. we served the burgers with pepper jack cheese, cabbage salsa and guacamole. yummy and FILLING.

* 1 12oz Can Black Beans (or 1-1/2 cups cooked yourself)
* 1 chopped & boiled potato (any sort, soft enough to mash)
* 1/2 yellow onion, minced
* 1-2 cloves garlic, minced
* 2T chopped cilantro
* juice of 1 lime
* 1 T cumin
* cayenne to taste
* 1tsp salt
* dash o pepper
* about 1/3 cup cornmeal (enough to form patties)
* 1/2 jalapeno (optional)
* 1 ear of corn cooked & shaved (optional)

Mash up the beans and potato. Add the rest of the ingredients and mash together with your hands. Form into patties of desired size and fry em up in plenty of olive oil until crispy.

A couple tips:
--Let the mixture sit for a while to let the cornmeal soak in and firm it up. i didnt do this and the later ones really turned out better and firmer than the first ones i cooked.
--after the first few, i also found that dredging the burgers in flour helped them brown nicely.
--we also added an egg b/c there didnt seem to be much in the recipe to help with binding. not sure if you'd need it or not.

recipe found at: http://brainfag.com/writing/156/