Article Top 10 Veggie Burger Recipe Ideas for Long Weekends
Easy, Healthy, Homemade Plant-based Burgers:
The Best Veggie Burger Recipes for Long Weekends and Summer Meals
May 12, 2026
From camping cookouts to summer hangouts at home, break out the barbeque for a backyard burger bash—starting with fresh inspiration from our long weekend Top 10 Veggie Burger Recipe Ideas!
Each of our top 10 delicious veggie burger recipes pairs plant-based protein with unique flavours, healthy, whole food ingredients—all with the high-fibre goodness of sprouted whole grains.
Plain or sesame topped, just grab a bag of your favourite Silver Hills Bakery sprouted whole grain buns, choose one of the best veggie burger recipes from our roundup, and you’re set to celebrate summer long weekends with family and friends!
1. Sprouted Green Lentil Burgers with Vegan Pickle Dip Sauce
Transform simple, budget-friendly staples into a low-effort, high-protein, high-fibre summer meal with our Sprouted Green Lentil Burgers with Vegan Pickle Dip burger sauce—all it takes is a little planning and some patience. So, grab a cup of lentils and get ready to soak and sprout your way to a wholesomely good dinner with this scrumptiously fun and simple recipe for summer meal magic!
2. Easy Homemade Grillable Veggie Burgers
Tasty but notoriously fragile, most homemade veggie burger recipes are best baked in the oven. But our easy Grillable Veggie Burger recipe won’t slip through the grate! It holds up on the grill as well as any store-bought plant-based patty—without sacrificing nutrition or flavour. Perfect for summers by the barbecue, embrace the rich, smoky flavour of outdoor grilling with this flippable high-fibre veggie burger!
3. Green Monster Burger
This satisfying plant-based patty offers the ultimate healthy-burger twist to help you celebrate Burger Month, long weekends, or the simple joys of summer dinners with family and friends. Made with creamy beans, corn, zesty seasonings, and pumpkin and sunflower seeds for a light crunch, the secret to this veggie burger recipe’s healthy green glow is a budget-friendly freezer staple—frozen green peas!
4. Buffalo Cauliflower Burger
Courtesy of plant-based dietitian Desiree Nielsen, this Buffalo Cauliflower Wings-inspired, hot sauce-basted, high-protein veggie burger recipe is nutrient dense and flavour-packed. Fast and easy thanks to canned white beans, just skip the hot sauce to make these cauliflower burgers friendly for little kids or spice-skeptics at your picnic table!
5. Protein-Packed Lentil Walnut Burger
Make this well-rounded burger fast with a little help from your food processor and fuss-free canned lentils. Healthy fats from walnuts meet high-fibre, high-protein lentils in this easy, make-ahead veggie burger recipe that freezes beautifully. Make a double or triple batch for summer days when you can’t spare the energy or minutes to make dinner from scratch!
6. Turmeric Burger
A blend of tofu, tahini, chopped onions, and carrots is kicked up with a punch of healthy spices, including the bright yellow superfood, turmeric. Top our Turmeric Burgers with arugula, avocado, red onions, red peppers, and vegan mayo for a deliciously easy veggie burger recipe that brings sunshine to long weekends and cloudy days all year round.
7. Beet Burger
As beautiful as it is delicious, shredded beets, brown rice, spices, and sunflower seeds load this beet-based burger with nutrition and flavour—the ultimate stealth health vehicle to sneak veggies onto picky kids’ plates! A dollop of vegan BBQ sauce makes our oven-baked Beet Burger taste like they’re fresh off the grill!
8. Garlicky Kale Burger
Bound together with tangy, creamy hummus and seasonings, our protein-packed quinoa and Garlicky Kale Burger recipe has a wealth of nutrition and fresh flavours baked right in. Your family will love these fast, easy plant-based burgers on long weekends or weeknights, no matter what’s on the agenda.
9. Fajita Burger
Hearty with a hint of spice, this quick and easy Tex-Mex veggie burger recipe is packed with protein from tempeh, fibre from black beans, healthy fat from avocado, and vitamins and minerals from a crunchy rainbow of bell peppers.
10. Polynesian Veggie Burger
Sensational pineapple flavour tops chickpea-sweet potato patties made with just a few pulses of the food processor. Some buttery lettuce and a hit of red onion round out this island delight veggie burger recipe.
Bonus:
Our Favourite Healthy Plant-based Burger Toppings
Whether it’s a whim or what ingredients you have in your fridge and pantry, sometimes you’ve just got to wing it!
And Our Favourite Healthy Plant-based Burger Toppings has you covered.
Our most popular veggie burger inspiration, mix and match with a top-your-own-burger station, or try one of seven deliciously fun and healthy veggie burger topping combos.
Either way, you’re sure to make an easy healthy summer meal everyone will love!
Ready to get grilling? Find Silver Hills Bakery organic sprouted whole grain plain and sesame burger buns near you. Which veggie burger recipe will you try this long weekend?
