As a food blogger, there’s always a time of the year to focus on food, and January is all about The Super Bowl. It’s that time where almost the whole country will be tuned to the biggest game of the year, and you can be certain everyone will be starving. Luckily I have a recipe that will be that talk of your party! You might need pads and a helmet just to get to these mini sliders.
I’m also excited to be starting 2016 as an ambassador for Lightlife, a leader in sustainable plant-protein, to create mouth-watering recipes that everyone can enjoy. It’s no secret that my blog doesn’t solely focus on being meat-free, but good healthy food should always be recognized in any form, and I love the choice from Lightlife and their background story.
Lightlife originally started as Tempeh Works back in 1979 in a converted car wash barn. Since then they’ve kept up the momentum and released many new and exciting products with a simple mission to provide healthy vegetarian food for anyone and still manage to proudly call themselves a sustainable company. A new year brings new goals for most people and one I’ll be focusing on is to lower my cholesterol levels. Lightlife’s plant-based protein products are perfect to help me knock out that goal!
So, back to the recipe. I used Lightlife Smart Patties with Quinoa to make sliders. These mini sized burgers are so easy to make and will disappear fast when you serve them up at the game. The Smart Patties are topped with melted cheddar, caramelized beer onions and a sweet blackberry bbq sauce. The key is to prep ahead, make the onions and sauce the night before Super Bowl, so all you have to do is throw the patties on the grill and add the rest of the ingredients.
Use a good dark beer in the onions for maximum flavor, and once you taste the blackberry bbq sauce you’ll wonder why you should ever buy regular sauce again! Feel free to try any kind of cheese, but I like a strong sharp cheddar on my burgers. It’s all about building the flavors and the best darn slider you’ll ever taste, seriously!
For the full recipe, click here!
This was a sponsored post for Lightlife. All thoughts and opinions are always my own!
If I could bathe in that sauce I would!
These are some stunning-looking veggie sliders! Pass me a spoon for that sauce!
Great looking sliders, Gerry. I know they would be a huge hit an any game watching party. Those caramelized beer onions sound fantastic too and perfect for the burgers I’m making tonight.
Those sliders are a thing of beauty.
What a wonderful combination of flavors, and the BBQ sauce looks divine!
Only you could make sliders look that good. Love these!
These sliders look absolutely amazing! And that sauce! I can’t wait to try these out.
You are killing it with these veggie sliders! And that sauce… everything!
These look incredible! I always need a little something sweet on my burgers, and the blackberry bbq sauce is perfect.
I’m in the throws of finding new plant based proteins for our daily meals!! These sliders won’t make me miss the beef! And this sauce – out of control!