Recipe: Perfect Vegan Veggie Burgers - Marla Meridith

Ingredients

• '--for the burgers
• 1 cup toasted pecans
• 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 cup minced mushrooms
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs
• 1 cup minced red onion
• 1 cup cooked brown rice
• 3 tbsp ketchup
• juice from 1/2 lime
• 1 tbsp soy sauce or tamari
• 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp olive oil, divided
• 5 buns
• lettuce
• sliced tomato
• pickles
• and sliced onion