White bean burger with sweet potato fries

Another great recipe identified through Finding Vegan's amazing photos. This one came from the blog, "What the hell does a vegan eat anyway?" which I think is a great name! Click for the original post.

Ingredients:

• 15 oz. can of cannellini beans, drained
• 1/2 small onion, minced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 tsp. rosemary, minced
• salt & pepper to taste

Steps:

1. Drain the can of beans and transfer to a bowl. Mash the beans (using a potato masher works well)
2. Add the flour & yeast and mix well.
   
3. Chop the onion, garlic, and rosemary, and add to the mix.
   
4. Season with salt & pepper.
5. Form into burger patties (mix will make about 6-8)
   
6. Heat 1-2 Tbsp olive oil in pan and cook the patties about 5-6 min each side, until browned.

Notes:
The rosemary adds such a nice flavor! And I love cannellini beans. But when I made these I couldn't find nutritional yeast, so I just used regular yeast. Because I wasn't sure that was right, I added less of it. Neither of those mistakes helped- the burgers still tasted pretty good flavor-wise, but were a little too mushy in the middle. I think making the patties fairly thin will help with that, and, of course, sticking to the recipe ;-)

For the sweet potato fries, I used my spiralizer to create the slightly thicker than shoestring curls of sweet potatoes, tossed them in some olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt, and put them in a 400 degree oven for maybe 20-30 minutes. If anyone has suggestions on how to make the perfect baked fries (that come out crispy and not burned), I'm all ears- mine could be a little crisper.