40 Best Veggie Burger Recipes Even Meat Eaters Will Love
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Jazz up your next summer cookout, get-together, or busy weeknight with these Crowd-Pleasing Veggie Burger Recipes even meat eaters love!
It’s burger time!
Healthy homemade veggie burgers are the perfect quick and easy whole foods plant-based meal!
Serve them up for summer BBQ’s, easy weeknight meals, casual get-togethers, and more all year long.
These veggie burger recipes are a great plant-based meal option for even the biggest meat eaters on your guest list!
Veggie burgers make the perfect transition food for newbies and meat eaters alike because they satisfy your cravings like a classic burger with healthier whole food plant-based ingredients you can feel good about.
And all of these recipes are completely vegan, and many are gluten-free, too, so they’ll fit in with most special diets.
There’s no need to feel left out at your next summer cookout!
Grill up some of these 40 Amazing Veggie Burger Recipes to show your friends and family they don’t need meat to feel satisfied!
Going to friend’s cookout? Bring some veggie burgers along with you to share.
Plant-based eating is getting more popular all the time, and you’re sure to find some guests who will be excited to try some new healthy gourmet veggie burger recipes!
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Best Veggie Burger Recipes Perfect for Summer Cookouts and Busy Weeknights
1. Portobello Mushroom Burger
Need a good veggie entrée for your next cookout? Try this grilled Portobello Mushroom Burger! Made with just 5 ingredients, it’s tangy, savory, and delicious.
2. Spicy Chickpea Burger
These easy to make veggie burgers are bursting with flavor and make an excellent alternative to store-bought versions.
3. Black Bean Chipotle Burger
A quick and easy recipe for Black Bean Burgers that can be made in under 30 minutes, vegan and gluten-free adaptable, and perfect for weekly meal prep!
4. Easy Grillable Veggie Burgers
Easy, grillable veggie burgers with just 10 ingredients (give or take a spice)! They’re flavorful, perfect for summertime grilling, and hearty enough to please meat-eaters and vegans alike!
5. Vegan Big Mac
Get your fast food fix the healthier way with this hearty vegan burger complete with the iconic special Big Mac sauce.
6. Vegan In-N-Out Burger
Enjoy a healthier, plant-based version of the west coast favorite wherever you are.
7. Quinoa Veggie Burger
Quinoa burgers are a delicious vegan alternative to a classic burger. This veggie burger is easy to make, hearty, healthy, high in protein and gluten-free.
Even meat eaters will love this quinoa patty…it’s THAT good!
8. For Carnivores
Got some staunch meat eaters on your guest list? Bring them over to the veggie side with this recipe created by a carnivore, for carnivores.
This is not a vegetarian burger pretending to be a meat burger, packed with obscure ingredients. It’s just a flavor packed, juicy veggie patty that’s satisfyingly meaty with great texture!
9. Falafel Burger
This insanely good falafel burger is easy to make and bursting with Mediterranean flavor! Smother in sauce for an epic vegetarian or vegan dinner.
Make a classic vegan, gluten-free falafel with this easy recipe.
10. Sweet Potato Burger
These easy homemade sweet potato burgers are the perfect combination of savory and spicy and come together in just 30 minutes!
11. Black Beans and More
These vegan Black Bean Burgers are simple to make and packed with smoky flavors and hearty ingredients like black beans, brown rice, walnuts, mushrooms, and oats.
12. Spicy Cauliflower Burger
Spicy Cauliflower Burgers with avocado sauce, cilantro lime slaw, and chipotle mayo! Meatless, filling, and delicious!
13. Beet and Kidney Bean Burger
Scrumptious, messy, colorful, and perfectly textured, these secretly healthy crowd-pleasers are incredibly easy to make, customizable, and offer everything you’d want a burger to be.
14. Simple Veggie Sliders
These 7-ingredient smoky veggie sliders are gluten-free, vegan, and perfectly tender and crumbly. Make the whole batch for a crowd, or par-bake half, freeze, and save them for later.
15. Jalapeño Popper Burger
These decadent burgers are oozing with vegan cheese, cream cheese, jalapeños, and vegan bacon.
16. Sun-Dried Tomato Chickpea Burgers
Flavorful chickpea burgers are infused with sun-dried tomatoes and fresh herbs for an easy, 10-ingredient plant-based entrée perfect on the stovetop or grill!
17. Sweet and Spicy Tofu Burger
This tofu burger recipe is juicy, flavorful, and grill-able! Pile it high with your favorite toppings, and enjoy at your next cookout.
18. Balsamic Portobello Burger
The balsamic-herb marinade and homemade garlic aioli sets these plant-based burgers apart, making them a healthy plant-based burger option even meat eaters will crave!
19. Smoky BBQ Black Bean Burger
Say hello to your new favorite veggie burger.
It’s gluten-free, BIG on flavor, infused with smoky BBQ flavor, and perfect on the grill or stovetop.
20. Black Bean Walnut Burger
Nourishing and delicious with a bit of a kick, Black Bean Walnut Burgers with Saucy Sweet Onions are make ahead ready, freezer friendly, GRILLABLE, and easy to pull together.
21. Balsamic Beet Burger
Ready for a juicy, hearty, flavor-packed veggie burger that’s super pretty to boot?
These vegan beet burgers bursting with color and flavor, and topped with a balsamic glaze that adds zip and a touch of sweetness.
22. Chana Masala Burger
This is a hearty, hefty burger patty that has great texture from the chickpeas and mushrooms, great flavor from the chana masala spices that go into it, and – I promise you this – it will not fall apart on the grill.
23. Better Than Store-Bought Veggie Burger
These delicious vegetable-packed burgers are high in fiber (5 grams) and come in at just under 200 calories for one patty. Vegan substitutes are included in the recipe.
24. The Big Bhaji Burger
Indian inspired vegan bhaji burger made with red onion, sweet potatoes, and carrots. These vegan burgers are spicy, colorful, and bursting with flavor!
25. Mexican Green Chili Veggie Burger
Tender, flavorful, quick, and satisfying, this 30-minute Southwest-inspired veggie burger is made with chickpeas, green chilies, and crushed tortilla chips!
26. Mega Seitan Burger
Slightly charred burger buns are filled with crispy, juicy, and smoky seitan steaks, pan-fried onions, grilled veggies, and luscious cheese sauce for a little taste of Heaven at home!
27. Spicy Miso Portobello Mushroom Burger
This Asian-style, grilled, vegan Portobello Mushroom Burger is full of delicious umami flavor! It’s slathered with Asian-style guacamole, then topped with a cool cucumber ribbon salad and crunchy carrot slaw.
28. Sweet Potato, Quinoa, and Black Bean Burger
These sweet and spicy veggie burgers are both vegan and gluten-free. You can bake them, grill them, or cook them on the stovetop!
29. The Best “Beefy” Burger
If you’re missing red meat, try this “Beefy” Vegan Burger made with mushrooms, grains, and walnuts for a hearty texture that actually rivals the real thing!
30. Za’atar Chickpea Burger
These burgers have a beautiful, layered middle-eastern flavor (think: sophisticated falafel) and will be a huge hit at your next cookout or easy weeknight meal.
31. Use What You Like Burger
Use beans, sunflower mince, lentils, veggies – whatever you like to make this easy and delicious vegan burger recipe tailored to your taste!
32. Tofu Veggie Burger
These easy and healthy tofu-based veggie burgers get plenty of flavor from onion and green onion, along with garlic powder and soy sauce, and receive a nutritional boost from wheat germ.
Super quick and easy to make, they’re definitely candidates for your weeknight meal rotation.
33. High-Protein TVP Vegan Burger
Awesome vegan burgers that are super meaty, soft, juicy, and high in protein! You will never believe these are vegan!
These veggie burgers are made with Texturized Vegetable Protein, or TVP, a high-protein ingredient derived from soy often used to give meaty substance and added protein to plant-based recipes.
34. Ultimate Beet Burger
Crispy on the outside, succulent and smoky-flavored on the inside, combined with delicious avocado-tahini sauce and baked sweet potato fries – this recipe has everything you would expect from a burger.
35. Moroccan Yam Veggie Burger
A flavorful Moroccan-style veggie burger served with a tangy and fresh cilantro-lime tahini sauce.
You can make these burgers soy-free by using coconut aminos, and they are naturally gluten-free when using certified gluten-free rolled oats/oat flour.
36. Quinoa Kale Burger
These gourmet veggie burgers are super easy to make, have tons of flavor, and are perfect for your summer festivities.
Since these burgers already contain quinoa, this recipe serves them on curly kale instead of a bun, but do as you please!
37. Green Goddess Pesto Burger
Pack your burger with flavor and supergreens! These giant green patties are bursting with basil, garlic, and finished off by the sink-your-teeth-in mashed chickpea texture.
38. Smoky Tempeh Black Bean Burger
Soft and moist veggie burgers with black beans and tempeh for a protein boost!
39. Buffalo Chickpea Burger
Amp up the flavor with these Buffalo Chickpea Veggie Burgers that will give you a total roundhouse kick to the taste buds in the most amazing way possible!
40. California Burger
This California Burger is a big juicy vegan burger loaded with guacamole, fresh corn salsa, and sprouts. It is lean and clean West Coast cuisine meets decadent burger.
These Ultimate Veggie Burger Recipes are the ultimate plant-based comfort food!
Make them for your next cookout, get-together, or weeknight with the family. These Easy and Delicious Veggie Burger Recipes are sure to be a hit with everyone on your guest list – even the most hardcore meat eaters.
What do you think of these Best Ever Veggie Burger Recipes? Will you make any of these recipe ideas for your next cookout?
Please share your thoughts in the comments below!
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