I have a couple of fun things to share with you guys today thanks to MorningStar Farms: A delicious recipe and a great giveaway! Not a bad way to kick off the day, right!?
If you’ve been a PBF reader from the beginning (thank you!), you know I’ve been a fan of MorningStar Farms veggie burgers for years.
My three favorite flavors:
- Tomato & Basil Pizza Burgers
- Spicy Black Bean Veggie Burgers
- Asian Veggie Patties
Back when I worked in an office environment, my coworkers would always poke fun at my “pizza burger” afternoon snack because I’d heat up a Tomato & Basil Pizza Burger in the break room several times a week and it always made the break room smell like the pizza delivery guy just stopped by! I gravitated toward the pizza burger because it was super simple to heat up at work, packed a protein punch and tasted delicious all by itself. A triple threat!
Lately I’ve been gravitating toward the Asian Veggie Patties and the Spicy Black Bean Burgers. Both are incredibly flavorful and I love the way they amp up the flavor of a big, veggie-packed lunchtime salad.
(A super simple spinach salad made with crumbled Spicy Black Bean Burgers, carrots, red onion, cucumber, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper!)
In addition to using the veggie burgers in salads, they’re also fabulous in quesadillas, wraps and homemade flatbread pizzas. They’re a great freezer staple in our house!
A couple of weeks ago, Ryan and I were in charge of dinner at my father-in-law’s house on Memorial Day. We wanted to keep things simple since our lunch included a super-filling Memorial Day barbeque and decided to follow an easy recipe I found on the MorningStar Farms website.
If you’re looking for a ridiculously simple recipe that makes the already tasty Spicy Black Bean Burgers taste a little more special, I highly recommend giving this recipe for Cumin Crusted Black Bean Burgers with Avocado Relish a go!
Cumin Crusted Black Bean Burgers with Avocado Relish
Serves One
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons seeded, peeled, and finely chopped avocado
- 2 tablespoons seeded and finely chopped tomato
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped red onion
- 1 teaspoon lime juice (divided)
- 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper (I used fresh red bell pepper)
- 1 Morningstar Farms® Spicy Black Bean Veggie Burger
- 1/8 teaspoon cumin
- 1 hamburger bun, split (about 1 1/2 oz.)
Directions
1. In small bowl toss together avocado, tomato, onion, 1/2 teaspoon of the lime juice and red pepper. Set aside.
2. Brush MorningStar Farms Spicy Black Bean Burger on both sides with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon lime juice. Rub cumin onto both sides of burger. Cook according to package directions.
3. Top bun bottom with burger, avocado mixture and bun top.
While Ryan prepped the burgers in cumin, I made a much larger portion of the avocado salsa so we could easily use it again on salads for lunch with crumbled black bean burgers the next day. Both options were great!
And now it’s giveaway time!
BlogHer is offering a $100 Visa gift card to one PBF reader so you can go get yourself some yummy veggie burgers! To enter this giveaway, simply comment below telling me about which of the following new MorningStar Farms products you most want to try:
- Spicy Black Bean Burger <— My favorite!
- Mediterranean Chickpea Burger
- Roasted Garlic & Quinoa Burger
- Buffalo Chik Patty
- Original Veggie Sausage
Good luck!
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This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. The notification email will come directly from BlogHer via the sweeps@blogher email address. You will have 72 hours to respond; otherwise a new winner will be selected.
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This sweepstakes runs from 6/6-6/30/2014.
Be sure to visit the MorningStar Farms brand page on BlogHer.com where you can read other bloggers’ posts!
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The Chick’n Patty – never tried theirs before!
I love veggie burgers and the Trader Joe’s pizza burgers are my current gave. I will have to try the tomato basil ones from Morningstar!
Buffalo Chix Patty sounds awesome!! 🙂
I really like the Spicy Black Bean Burger, but I’m interested in seeing what the Mediterranean Chickpea Burger would be like!
I love the Spicy Black Bean Burger I eat it all the time!
Spicy black bean burger for sure
I would love to try the Spicy Black Bean Burger!! I’ve been wanting to try Morningstar for a long time.
Spicy black bean burger!
I’m so into Mediterranean !!
I love the black bean burgers, and would love to try the Mediterranean chickpea
love a good black bean burger!
The Mediterranean Chickpea sounds fantastic!
The roast garlic and quinoa burger sounds great!
Roasted garlic and quinoa sounds yummy!
Chickpea for me!
the roasted garlic and quinoa burger sounds amazing! i know i should probably make those kinds of things myself, but morningstar’s are just so easy and delicious.
Definitely the spicy black bean burger!
I’d love to try the Buffalo Chik Patty!
I most want to try the Mediterranean Chickpea.
I ALWAYS have the spicy black bean burger in the freezer, and then I rotate my way through all the others. (There are always two boxes in the freezer at all times!) There’s not a bad one in the mix! Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d love to try the Buffalo Chik Patty!
My favorite MorningStar Farms product is definitely the buffalo Chik Patty, they are delicious and my whole family enjoys them!
Tweeted for a second entry
https://twitter.com/mummytotwoboys1/status/475726073808687105
I have had the black bean ones and would live to try the others! They look delicious!
I’d like to try the Buffalo Chik Patty!
Roasted Garlic & Quinoa Burger sounds amazing! I love morningstar products!
As a vegetarian, I love these burgers as meat replacements! I’d love to try the new veggie sausage for breakfast!
I want to try the spicy black bean burgers and the buffalo chik patties.
I want to try the roasted garlic and quinoa burger.
The chickpea one. Wonder if it tastes like falafel?
I would like to try the Roasted Garlic & Quinoa Burger. It sounds delicious!
The mediterranean chickpea burger sounds good!
I am obsessed with the Spicy Black Bean Burgers but I would love to try the Roasted Garlic and Quinoa burgers!!
I would love to try the Mediterranean Chickpea burger. I have tried all of the other ones, big Morningstar Farms fan!
I ALWAYS have at least 2 different boxes of Morninstar burgers in my freezer. I love using the Chicken ones cut up in a salad, love the Pizza burger, the Spicy Black Bean and the Original. I would be really interested to try the Roasted Garlic and Qunioa burger, sounds great!
I’ll stick with the original. Love it with pasta sauce and shaved Parmesan cheese.
Tweeted.
https://twitter.com/Jayne_Martin/status/475766057567674368
Really want to try the Buffalo Chicken Patty because I love almost all Buffalo chicken styled recipes. The black bean veggies burgers and tomato flavored burgers are already favorites of mine and currently in my freezer 🙂
The buffalo chick burgers sound great!
I would love to try the buffalo chicken flavor because all things buffalo taste delicious.
The Mediterranean burger sounds fab!
spicy black bean burger! YUM
Would love to try any of their burgers!
heres my tweet! 🙂
https://twitter.com/kRiStYnMaY/status/475781647431110657
Spicy black bean burger sounds good!
Definitely going to pick up the garlic and quinoa burgers!
Garlic and quinoa burger!!
I just tried the pizza one this past weekend and loved it! It is my new fave!!
I LOVE the black bean burger but I haven’t found the quinoa and garlic one yet. Yum!
Mediterranean Chickpea Burger!