I'm not incredibly impressed with this recipe. It tasted like there was something missing. I even added some sugar, but it still lacked "oomph."

This was delicious! They ended up smelling and tasting like taco seasoning! I made these for my fiance and his mother and his vegetarian sister. We LOVED them. They are still enjoyable two days later, too. I made a few changes, though: -I doubled the recipe -I used an extra egg -I used an extra half cup of bread crumbs -I used frozen green/red/yellow peppers from Kroger. I defrosted them in the microwave, then squeezed out the excess water by hand. -I used garlic from a prepackaged bottle of Spice World minced garlic instead of expensive fresh garlic. Half a teaspoon of minced garlic is roughly equal to one clove of garlic. (I use this bottled, minced garlic with much success in just about everything that calls for fresh garlic.) -I mashed the beans with a potato masher instead of a fork. It worked very well. -I lightly coated a foil-covered cookie sheet with sprayable, canned vegetable oil. All of this worked out very well. The fact that this recipe is quite inexpensive only makes it that much better, if you ask me. I made the recommended four patties per can of black beans, and the patties were pretty big. My fiance and I both think that the patties could have been a little bit smaller, though, so next time I will probably make five patties per can of beans instead of four. I will definitely make these again in the future.