Super easy and simple 6 ingredient vegan mushroom lentil veggie burgers that are the perfect veggie burger recipe! Completely vegan, eggless, and gluten free, plus these veggie burgers are grillable! Perfect for all eaters, vegan or not!
Why this is the only veggie burger recipe you need
These are honestly the best vegan veggie burgers you’ve ever had. From the texture, to the taste, to just the ease of making these veggie patties, this vegan burger recipe is truly the only recipe you need for your vegan barbecues and summer parties!
Made from a main base of oats, lentils, chickpeas, and mushrooms, these mushroom lentil burgers are only 6 ingredients and have the perfect texture and taste that will even satisfy the non-vegans in your crowd. Plus, they don’t taste processed, they’re full of flavor, and the best part: these vegan veggie burgers are easily grilled.
Yep, a veggie burger that doesn’t fall apart!
These vegan lentil burgers are perfect for grill outs, barbecues, summer dinner parties, or as an easy weeknight meal that both kids and adults love! Serve on a vegan burger bun, open-faced, or just over veggies for an amazing healthy vegan dinner recipe!
How do you make veggie burgers stick together?
The key ingredient that helps bind these vegan veggie burgers together is actually oat flour. The lentils and chickpeas help a bit, but the real binding agent is in the oats. This is because oats contain a starch that’s made up of amylopectin, which when activated with water, creates a “glue-like” texture.
This is why oat flour can sometimes be swapped in for regular all-purpose flour. The glue-like texture can act very similarly to gluten!
Using oat flour also helps keep these vegan mushroom burgers entirely gluten-free, as well, making them suitable for all eaters!
Vegan Mushroom Lentil Burger Ingredients
As we noted earlier, these veggie burgers are made from just 6 simple pantry staple ingredients. From your kitchen, you’ll need the following:
- Lentils: the measurements in the recipe card below are for cooked lentils. You can purchase them pre-cooked or cook them from dried lentils.
- Chickpeas: save the aquafaba to make an awesome vegan chiffon cake later on!
- Rolled oats: this is what we’ll make the oat flour from. Use gluten-free certified as needed
- Mushrooms: any type of mushroom is good here! We’re just using them for the overall texture.
- Coconut aminos: you can also use soy sauce, but I tried to keep this recipe both nut-free and soy-free.
- Tomato paste
- Sea salt
You’ll notice that these lentil veggie burgers are not only packed with both plant protein and veggies, but they’re naturally eggless, dairy free, nut free, grain free, and soy free!
How to make vegan burgers from scratch
These vegan lentil burgers are incredibly easy to make. In fact, you only need a food processor or high speed blender and a sauté pan! For the actual cooking of the veggie burger, you can use a baking sheet or the grill!
The full written recipe and ingredient measurements are found down below in the recipe card. However, we’re going to go over the basics here, along with visuals to help you make the BEST veggie burgers around. Seriously, people will be asking you for the recipe!
To make these veggie burgers:
- Begin by sautéing the mushrooms. You want them to be fully cooked, as they’ll be more easily blended into the burger patty mixture. You’ll use the coconut aminos here to give the mushrooms flavor.
- In a food processor, pulse the oats into a flour. Then add in the remaining ingredients (lentils, chickpeas, tomato paste, and mushrooms), and blend until you reach a thick and consistent patty batter.
- Form burger patties using about 1/2 cup per each patty. You’ll yield 5 medium-large patties. Form them into patties and either place them onto a parchment lined baking sheet or a plate to be grilled.
- If cooking in the oven, bake for 20 minutes at 375, then flip the patties to cook for another 5 minutes. If grilling, you’ll grill them for about 4-6 minutes on each side.
- Serve and enjoy!
How to grill a veggie burger
Yes, these veggie burgers are absolutely able to be grilled! The burger patty itself is sturdy enough that it can easily be grilled without falling apart.
You’ll simply heat the grill as you normally would, and grill them as you would a regular burger patty.
One important topic to note: if you are truly vegan, and where you’re grilling the veggie burgers is not entirely vegan, be cautious about grilling. Actual meat may have touched the grill, and depending on how well they clean their grills, there is the potential for cross-contamination.
If that’s the case, I recommend grilling these lentil veggie burgers (at least yours) on your own grill, and simply heating it in the oven for 5 minutes at 300F before serving. This ensures that there’s no chance for possible cross-contamination, and that your vegan veggie burger is truly vegan!
Storage tips
If you’re not consuming these mushroom lentil burgers right away, I recommend storing them cooked and in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. You can also freeze them cooked for up to a month!
To make ahead: if you’re grilling or cooking these veggie burgers the following day, you can make the patties the day before and store them in an airtight container. Chill them in the fridge overnight, then proceed to grill them.
How to serve veggie burgers:
These vegan lentil burgers are perfect as is or served as you would a regular burger! Think lettuce, tomato, vegan coleslaw, avocado, ketchup, mustard, pickles, and the works.
You can even make these into vegan cheeseburgers by topping with a slice of vegan cheese after you’ve grilled them! I recommend using Violife vegan cheese slices for the best tasting vegan cheese.
You are just going to love how amazing these vegan mushroom burgers taste! Seriously, my absolute favorite vegan veggie burger recipe, hands down. And a favorite for all my family, meat eaters included!
If you try this lentil veggie burger recipe, be sure to leave a comment and a rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ so that others may more easily find this recipe.
As always, I absolutely love to see your beautiful creations on Instagram and Pinterest, so be sure to tag me there!
Happy homemade veggie burger grilling!
More healthy vegan dinner recipes:
Amazing Vegan Lentil Meatballs
Easy Vegan Sweet Potato Gnocchi
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The BEST Easy Vegan Lentil Veggie Burger (Grillable!)
- Prep Time: 30
- Cook Time: 25
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 5 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Description
Super easy and simple 6 ingredient vegan mushroom lentil veggie burgers that are the perfect veggie burger recipe! Completely vegan, eggless, and gluten free, plus these veggie burgers are grillable! Perfect for all eaters, vegan or not!
Ingredients
- 3 cups (10 ounces) raw mushrooms, chopped and stems removed
- 1 cup (140 grams) cooked lentils
- 1 cup (105 grams) rolled oats, gluten free as needed
- 1 cup (200 grams) cooked chickpeas, rinsed
- 1 tbsp coconut aminos
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) tomato paste
- 1 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat 1 tbsp olive oil.
- Add in mushrooms and coconut aminos. Sauté until fully cooked. Cover and simmer until cooked, about 5 minutes.
- Once mushrooms are cooked, set aside to allow to cool while preparing the remaining ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 375F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large food processor, pulse oats until they reach a flour.
- Add in lentils, mushrooms, chickpeas, tomato paste, salt, and pepper. Blend until smooth.
- Form about 1/2 cup of mushroom lentil veggie burger batter into a patty and place onto the parchment paper. Repeat for the remaining batter. You should yield about 5 patties.
Oven Method:
- Place the baking sheet into the oven and bake for 20 minutes on one side, until the patties are lightly browned on top. Flip the patties over to bake for another 5 minutes on the other side.
- Remove and serve on burger buns!
Grill Method:
- Refrigerate the patties for 30 minutes before grilling.
- Heat the grill and grill each patty for 4-6 minutes on both sides.
- Serve and enjoy!
Keywords: vegan veggie burger recipe, lentil veggie burger, veggie burger recipe, easy veggie burger
These are the BEST veggie burgers!! Super flavorful and satisfying. Definitely will be a new staple of mine 🙂
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Aw I am so so happy to hear that!! Thank you so much for trying them!
What Do you recommend I substitute the mushrooms with? Thank you!
Hi Kat! I wouldn’t recommend swapping out the mushrooms, as that helps keep the texture of these vegan burgers less dense.