Cooking: Two WIP recipes

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+***Work in Progress: tweaks from [[Black Bean Burgers]] need to be integrated
+back into this variant***
+
+* Ingredients
+
+Combine the basic bean patty with a binder of your choosing, and add a
+spice blend. Quantities for the binder and spices here are based on
+one unit of bean patty mixture.
+
+** Basic Bean Patty
+
+ - 850g black beans cooked (2x425g cans no salt added black beans),
+   - 816g after draining
+   - 689g after drying in oven
+ - 425g cooked chickpeas, canned or from dry beans
+ - 1-2 tbsp sesame oil (for frying patties)
+
+or
+
+ - 700g cooked from dry beans
+
+Makes six to eight patties.
+
+** Binder
+
+ - 1/4 cup vital wheat gluten
+ - 1/2 cup panko flakes
+
+Mix panko flakes and vital wheat gluten together.
+
+** Spices
+
+ - 2tbsp olive oil (for sauteing onions)
+ - 1 medium white onion
+ - 4 Serrano peppers (or 2 Serrano and 2 jalapeno)
+ - 1 habanero pepper
+ - 1 Sweet bell pepper (red, orange, yellow -- doesn't matter)
+ - ~12 cloves garlic (one head)
+ - 3 tbsp cumin
+ - 3/4 tbsp maras biberi flakes or Aleppo pepper flakes
+ - 1 1/4 tsp dried ground ginger
+
+* Directions
+
+** Prepare Canned Beans
+
+Stolen from [[https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/03/the-best-black-bean-burger-recipe.html][Serious Eats]], canned black beans should be dehydrated a
+bit.
+
+ 1. Preheat oven to 350°F
+ 1. Drain black beans, discarding liquid. Don't rinse.
+ 1. Spread beans on foil lined baking sheet with sides
+ 1. Place in oven for ~15 minutes
+
+If using beans cooked from dry beans, this can probably be skipped?
+
+** Prepare Chickpeas
+
+ 1. Drain liquid from chickpeas
+ 1. Pulse in food processor or small chopper until they are crumbly
+
+** Sauteed Herbs and Vegetables
+
+ 1. Dice white onion
+ 1. Dice bell pepper
+ 1. Mince hot peppers and garlic
+ 1. Retain half uncooked of onions/peppers/garlic uncooked. Drain
+    while sauteing other half.
+ 1. Saute onion, peppers, and garlic with olive oil until onions are
+    lightly browned
+ 1. Squeeze in paper towel after cooled to drain any excess moisture
+    and oil. Do the same for the uncooked vegetables (gently).
+
+** Combine!
+
+ 1. Mix dry spices before and black beans in bowl **before** mashing (this
+    seems to help diffuse the spices more consistently).
+ 1. Mash beans to desired consistency in a mixing bowl. Mostly paste
+    with some partially mashed beans is good.
+ 1. Mix in processed chickpeas
+ 1. Mix in garlic, peppers, and onions
+ 1. Mix in binder
+
+Grab a ball of the mixture and form into a patty. It should be almost
+as robust as a murder burger so should be able to handle being
+squished into whatever shape by hand.
+
+** Cook
+
+ 1. Pan fry over medium-high heat for ~4 minutes per side (until
+    outside is browned and a bit crispy). Cooking spray or oil will be
+    needed to keep it from burning. Brushing the burgers with sesame
+    oil works well (one side at a time, just before putting into pan
+    and just before flipping).
+
+* TODO
+
+Should some liquid be included when processing chickpeas?
+
+Cumin level seems ok, but needs more onion and bell pepper (thinking
+two bell peppers next time).
+
+** 2019-04-29
+
+Doubled cumin from 1.5Tbsp to 3 Tbsp
+
+Used three bell peppers
+
+Skipped sauteeing vegetables entirely
+
+** 2019-06-??
+
+ - Added 1/4 cup pistachios. Seems like a reasonable idea, use more
+   next time. or just tahina...
+ - One can normal salt black beans (got it by accident), and one can
+   low salt. not sure if this affected anything other than salt
+   content.
+ - Added 1tbps cracked black pepper
+ - Added 1/2Tbsp oregano
+ - Used two bell peppers
+ - Halved fresh garlic, added 1Tbsp powder
+
+These were good, but I waited so long after making them to record
+notes I can't remember what was better othan than maybe the nuts.
+ 
+** 2021-06-19
+
+Integrate more recent changes from base black bean burger recipe.
+
+Will be grilled, so needs tahini to be extra sticky.
+
+Skip sauteeing vegetables?
+
+*** Spices
+
+ - 2 bell peppers? (guess if they're smaller food lion peppers)
+ - 1/2 tsp MSG
+ - 1 tsp fine grained sea salt
+ - Reduce 3 -> 2 tbsp cumin
+
+*** Binder
+
+ - 6 Tbsp tahini
+
+Resulted ~1400g, 8 burgers.