Houston's Restaurant Copycat Veggie Burgers

Made this last night with a few modifications and nailed it. I would blind taste test this against Houston's any day.<br/> <br/>First make your own bbq sauce, 2 tablespoons each of soy, molasses, honey and Hoisin. Stir and put to the side. <br/><br/>In another large bowl dice beans as recipe calls for then add half of the bbq sauce, save rest for when cooking patties.<br/><br/>Cook 1 and half cups of brown rice (I used brown jasmine) and roast two beets (go online to see how, really easy, olive oil and salt sealed in aluminum foil at 375 till soft to the touch. Half of a white onion, sautéed, when each is done add to beans (dice beets and add any juice from foil)<br/><br/>Add 1 teaspoon each of chili powder and salt.<br/>1/4 teaspoon each of ground cumin, smoked paprika and ground black pepper.<br/>1 diced fresh jalapeno<br/>4 diced garlic cloves.<br/>2 teaspoons of olive oil<br/>2 each of dried prunes, plums and figs - diced<br/>1 egg or egg substitute <br/><br/>Take your time, should be about 50 minutes and everything around room temp. They stayed together perfectly.<br/><br/>To cook, get a cast iron skillet smoking, add a coat of olive oil, place patties and drip bbq sauce on top, flip after 2 minutes and repeat with sauce. Add monterey jack slices and cover for two minutes. Get good buns and broil with olive oil.<br/><br/>They need nothing else, meat eaters loved and veggie%u2019s said it was better than houstons. Worth the work, one hour total. I made 6 patties with leftovers.<br/>Good luck and enjoy

I used to work at Houston's in Miami and I prepped these veggie burgers. The recipe has chopped FIGS in it and tons of garlic.

Houston's lied to you, Chef#226412---They do use chopped beets. I used to make the veggie burgers when I worked prep there. Brown rice, oat cereal, chopped black beans, salt, pepper, fresh garlic, jalapenos, white onion. The glaze is honey, soy, hoisin, and molasses. it gets dipped before grilling and held in the marinade before cooking.

You did an excellent job! We are so excited. We have been trying to duplicate this recipe for years. I will let you in on a little secret. I became friendly with a waiter at Housten's. He told me there were plums in the recipe. I assumed he meant prunes. So, I chopped up some prunes and added them to the recipe. That is all I changed. Excellent job. Congrats again on finding he secret ingredients. Well done!

Pretty good. I've never put beets in veggie burgers (or anything for that matter :D) and they add a really nice background flavor! I baked the patties then lightly fried them before serving. They help together ok, but that is an aspect that would need tweaking (I used 1 whole egg). Thanks!