Black Bean Butternut Sliders with Chipotle Ketchup.
I’m having the weirdest dreams.
Yesterday I dreamt that I was napping on the couch and someone was trying to feed me these sliders, like sticking a plate of them in front of my face and trying to shove them in my mouth.
Then I dreamt that Eddie was wearing my neon socks.
Then I dreamt that I posted a really weird but very real photo on instagram. I’m way too connected if I’m dreaming about pictures on social media and what not.
The sliders dream was by far the weirdest though because I have no clue WHO was trying to feed them to me, we didn’t have any left, I’d already eaten them and woke up with a serious craving.
It’s not that waking up from a nap and wanting to eat is a new thing for me – no matter what – if I ever nap or fall asleep during the day (which is weird to begin with because I hate naps unless they are on the weekend and even then I think they are a waste) I wake up wanting to eat ALL THE THINGS. Like even if I’m full prior to the nap. For some reason, nap wake ups = starvation. Like fistfuls-of-cereal-and-pretzels-that-scrape-the-bottom-of-the-hummus-container starvation all within a matter of two minutes. Followed by some chocolate or my newest (old) obsession: DOTS.
I mean, who the heck is eating Dots these days? For some reason I’m into them. But I bought a box at the dollar store and my brother insisted they were probably from 1992.
Probably.
I have news! I *think* that this might be my last butternut recipe for a few weeks. Or even a few months. Not because I’m over it (as if) but because when you’re in nesting mode and have no design or organization skills whatsoever, “nesting mode” means testing recipes for freaking FEBRUARY. Like cooking until your fridge is seriously busting at the seams. Eating Thanksgiving in August and doing away with Christmas cookies in September.
It’s very difficult for my fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants brain but hello, I have NO idea what my life will be like in a few weeks. Besides wonderful. And heavily caffeinated.
Oh oh oh annnnnd I have nothing in the freezer yet, and honestly? I probably won’t. My dinner brain doesn’t work like that. Maybe I’ll regret it or maaaaaybe I’ll just eat a lot of pizza. And mashed potatoes.
Or mashed potato pizza.
Sooo. If you’re so totally over squash, not into it or just don’t have it on hand, you can easily sub sweet potatoes here instead. I kind of made a riff of my sweet potato burgers from a few years ago but with beans for a bit more added texture. And in slider form!
Because little things are cute.
And mean you get to eat MORE.
There adorable mini burgers are topped with the meltiest havarti ever, some chipotle ketchup, cilantro and plopped on a little bun. I brushed my buns with melted butter then sprinkled on some garlic salt before toasting them because GARLIC BUTTER. It added a ridiculous amount of easy flavor which I would highly suggest.
And of course, after I started eating one, I just threw the potato chips on top of the sandwich too because no sandwich is complete with chips ON it. Take it from me.
Black Bean Butternut Sliders with Chipotle Ketchup
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups cubed butternut squash
- 2 shallots, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- few grates of fresh nutmeg
- 1 (14.5 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1/3 cup seasoned bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 8 slices havarti cheese
- 8 slider buns
- cilantro for topping
chipotle ketchup
- 1/2 cup tomato ketchup
- 1 tablespoon adobo sauce from a can of chipotles in adobo
- 1/4 teaspoon chipotle chili powder
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add butter and olive oil. Add the squash, shallots, garlic, pepper flakes, salt and pepper and stir to coat. Cook until the squash is just tender, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Stir in a few grates of fresh nutmeg.
- Transfer the entire pan contents to a food processor. Pulse until just slightly chopped (the squash will start to somewhat puree). Add in the beans and pulse just a few times until they are coarsely chopped. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the egg, bread crumbs and flour until your have a slider “dough.” Form the dough into 8 to 10 sliders (I go by the size of buns I have) and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Stick them in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, heat the same skillet over medium heat. Add another drop of olive oil if needed, then carefully add the sliders into the skillet. Cook until golden on each side – about 6 to 8 minutes per side – gently flipping with a small square spatula so you don’t bread the sliders apart. In the last minute or so of cooking, add sliced havarti cheese on top to melt.
- To serve the sliders, toast the buns slightly. Spread the ketchup on the bottom bun then top with a burger. Add the cilantro on top of the cheese (or lettuce if you hate cilantro!) and eat.
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87 Comments on “Black Bean Butternut Sliders with Chipotle Ketchup.”
These are the PERFECT way to end your butternut squash season. I’ll be continuing mine for a couple months! I’m so impressed you’re planning so far ahead :)
NO MORE BUTTERNUT?! Say it isn’t so!
But, because your last recipe is totally adorbs and little, so I can eat 10, you are forgiven! Also, till February? DANG! I thought I was good being ready to go until January! Pinned!
Yes, please!!!
PS: let’s see Eddie in those socks! ;)
These look delicious! I’m not over squash yet but soon! And those dreams…I wish you could get them decoded!
Oh my goodness! I totally get the starvation after a nap! What’s up with that?
These sliders are sooooo happening!
I love that photo with the melting cheese. Yes puhleeze! :)
I adore chipotle ketchup, especially when I have lots of sweet potato wedges to dip!
Soooo I totally need to move in! I can’t wait to see all the recipes you’ve saved up!! These look great.
These look fantastic. I am completely adverse to prepackaged veggie burgers, but I had a homemade bean burger once and I loved it. I want to try these w/ the sweet potatoes.
Hmmm…speaking of dreams. I’m embarrassed to admit I had one with YOU in it. My sister and her husband were getting married (not renewing, though they’ve been married for 15 years) and you came to the wedding. A woman I know online from gaming and good reads, whom I have never met irl, was also there. You kept making her buy me mojitos.
It was sort of fantastic.
If I plan ahead by a week, I feel accomplished. I don’t know how you do it! Havarti is my cheese of life! These burgers sound fabulous!
DOTS… hilarious. What a blast from the past. Those were so popular!!
These look wonderful! I made black bean burgers (my first attempt at meatless burgers) this past summer. They were tasty but we agreed they needed some kind of sauce – so I think the melted cheese and the spicy ketchup are perfect additions!
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Mmmm I dont think I’ll ever get sick of butternut squash — ever. I freaking love the stuff. I’m sure by now, my husband wants to throw one at my head, for how often we’ve been eating it .. but, mehh.
Heavens to murgatroyd!!! Must make now!!
oh these sound fantastic. I will be making these soon!
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Yum! I want it now x
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I still eat Dots. No shame. I had a box last time I went to the movies.
I am looking forward to all of those recipes. Oh, and Dots are awesome!
Thanks for sharing this yummy recipe it looks so good!
How well do these guys hold together? I swear, every time I make a bean burger, the entire patty just ends up crumbled in my lap. Or maybe I just can’t eat a burger….
OMG these look absolutely amazing!!! Gotta try :)
Saddest part of my Halloween: not eating any Dots. I usually rely on a colleague or two to bring in those mixed packs with tootsie rolls and dots. This year my colleagues failed me. Of course, I could have purchased them myself, but when I just really need one (or five) little boxes, is it really worth it? ;)
Now these butternut squash and black bean sliders. Those are definitely worth it. They look delicious!
Interesting! Would love to try!
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When I was in my last month or two of pregnancy (I had my first baby in August- yay!) I had the CRAZIEST dreams towards the end. They either revolved around food or sex! So weird, but true! And I did force myself to make freezer meals and I was so happy that I did. They never tell you just how impossibly crazy that those first 2-3 weeks are… like totally insane!!! Anyway, I had a boy and am so, so head over heels. Good luck to you Jessica!!
My husband always makes fun of me, because I have the WEIRDEST dreams. Ever. Sometimes there’s so scary, too! It’s crazy. Anyway. These burgers look so gooood, especially with that havarti and that ketchup! I am definitely a ketchup girl. Like “can I get two sides of extra ketchup” kinda of girl.
Love the idea of topping these off with Havarti (which just auto corrected to Harvard..) These definitely look worth breaking out my food processor for!
Black beans, and sweet potatoes, and chipotle ketchup! This is my perfect burger! And nothing in the freezer? I didn’t either and I honestly have no idea what I ate for the first 6 months? but somehow it all worked out :)
hahahah YES totally remember the craziness that is pregnancy dreams. also, you are not alone in your DOTS love–I have to limit myself to how often I purchase them because I find them irresistible (much to the dismay of my dentist, I’m sure!)
YAY I am loving these sliders, so adorbs!!! this is perfect for meatless monday, esp that chipotle ketchup :)
These sound so good! I have to say, you are very smart to plan blog stuff ahead all the way to February. I did the same thing before I had my baby, and THANK GOODNESS I did. Otherwise, my blog would have been sitting there, literally UNTOUCHED, for the past 6 weeks. Nothing fully prepares you for life with baby. I know you’ve probably heard this 10,000 times, but you will do NOTHING but take care of that awesome little being for weeks and weeks. You won’t have a smidgen of time for anything else! I didn’t believe it when people said that to me…and my to-do list these days is a mile long, and I don’t see it getting shorter any time soon. It’s the best, though. :)
My The one thing my hubby always asks me to make him more of? Black bean burgers, no joke! These look and sound like suuuuch an amazing combo, definitely need to try!
there are home videos of my father bribing me with Dots if I’d say my ABC’s to the camera. pans back over to 3-year-old me…. “I WAN DAWWWTS, Daaaaad!”
love those little dots!!!
The little buns are really what get me with sliders. So cute and squishy. I’d take a plate of sliders over a big honkin’ burger 9 times out of 10 (that 10th time being the Pit Boss burger from FATE brewery in Boulder).
You have such a talent for creating delicious, beautiful food. Thank you for sharing it! :)
Thank you for another great veggie burger recipe! As a vegetarian I appreciate having some variety in my burgers. These look delicious!
Hahahah the “you should add a side of Dots” at the end killed me! You’re too funny.
These look really delicious. I will not sub sweet potatoes because I will never be sick of squash. Every season is squash season! I go through 2-4 cans of pumpkin a month during the spring and summer. I’m not sure if I should be embarrassed by that or not…
The chipotle ketchup looks amazing and i have no words for that burger. :-)
I mean, who WOULDN’T dream of sliders being fed to them in their sleep. Makes me ravenous at the thought of it. Just delightful!
These were good! Just want to chime in and say how awesome I think you are for planning ahead and getting some recipes together for when the baby arrives. I had been wondering if you were going to post anything or what was going to happen. So excited for you and Eddie!!! :)
Oh my, I’m bookmarking these so that I can make them soon! I love mini sized things – so cute!
These sliders look adorable. I could probably shove two or three of these in my maw and totally enjoy it, especially with that chipotle ketchup. Yummy.
Pregnancy dreams are whacked!
These sliders however are divine and I can not wait to get hem in my belly!
Thanks for another seriously delish recipe ;)
DELICIOUS sliders!
Dots = nostalgic candy right there :)
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So I won’t go down the Dots path with you….but I will most definitely do the sliders! Or, maybe I can just take a nap and someone will feed them to me?
These sliders look amazing!! I think I could devour anything with chipotle ketchup ;)
I love dots! That’s what I always get when I go to the movies. I dig the chew. So yes, I will gladly add a side of dots to these yummy sliders!!
I am loving everything about this!
I’m so impressed with your planning ahead – I finally JUST learned to make freezable breakfasts on Sundays for the week.
Also – in the same realm as dots: Jujy Fruits. Stale. SO GOOD.
I need to make these soon! I love all kinds of black bean burgers and this has got be a combination I’ve never tried. Looks delicious!
SO so cute! I have the strangest most realistic dreams too. And then have to shovel food in my gob. Sigh. Totally saving this recipe bc my friend would love this and shes visiting this weekend.
And OMG I totally made a Dots joke the other day.
I want to eat all the sliders then take a nice, long nap. These look amazing.
I always talk about making my own veggie burgers, but then I just break down and buy them. No More!!! This is the perfect veggie burger recipe for me. Thank you for sharing it!