This recipe is nutritious, easy, quick, cheap and gives you a wide range of possibilities.

Essential Ingredients:

• butter beans or chick peas or black beans
• oat meal
• soy sauce
• bread crumbs + powdered seasonings to taste
• olive oil

Flavor/Texture Enhancers

• jerk seasoning (a mixture of onions, garlic, pepper, pimento, nutmeg)
• chutney
• mushrooms
• black olives
• barbecue sauce

Method

1. Crush the butter beans (chick peas or black peas) in a container.
2. Add the oatmeal and the Soy sauce to get the brown colour.
3. If you are using the Flavor/Texture enhancers, now’s the time + some olive oil.
4. Add bread crumbs and mix together, you are not going for dryness, you want them sticky and moist.
5. Drop spoonfuls into another container containing bread crumbs with the powdered seasoning, roll with the spoon, lift and place on an oiled plate.
6. Don’t worry about shape.
7. Put into the microwave for a minute at High.
8. Take out, mold the burgers into better shaped patties, and back into the microwave for two minutes at medium high.
9. Depending on how your micro bakes, you might want to flip them for another minute at medium or remove for storage.
10. When all the patties are done, (depending on how big you make them you can get from eight to twelve) select the one you intend to eat now, and freeze the others.
11. You want partially cooked burgers you can store and complete the cooking when you are ready to eat them.
12. For the burger you intend to eat now, back into the micro for one minute at medium high.
13. Prepare your bun, put vege cheese, tomato, pepper, whatever it is you normally eat on a burger.
14. Place the burger on the bun, and back into the micro for one minute at medium high.
15. You should have a very tasty moist burger that is better than meat, and full of real flavor

Everything depends on your seasonings. Butter Beans have a smoother yet blander taste, chick peas have a rougher starchier flavour, while black beans have the most flavour.  The chutney gives it the moist ‘fatty’ quality, while jerk seasoning is peppery and a shock of flavour.  
The soy sauce and barbeque sauce give it the right colour and make adding salt unnecessary.  Soy sauce has qualities, like wine.  Buy the best, not the cheapest.