Place black beans through olive oil in a food processor and process or pulse for about 30 seconds.

Once ingredients fully processed and your mixture is a smooth thick pasty texture go ahead and add your egg and 1/4 cup cornmeal.

Pulse a few more times to fully mix and then transfer your mixture to a medium size mixing bowl.

Place your bowl, covered with plastic wrap or foil into a freezer for 15 minutes or fridge for about 30 minutes. (You're just wanting to give your mixture a nice chill so that they form better patties for you)

At this point start preheating your griddle or skillet when it's close to the end of the chilling time. (If you're using a griddle, preheat it to 400 degrees, if using a skillet to cook the burgers, preheat on medium to medium high.

Once your mixture is chilled for the allotted time, scoop a 1/2 cup measurement of your mixture and form a patty one by one as thick as you like and sprinkle the remaining cornmeal onto the top and bottom of your patty, then gently place the patty onto your olive oil sprayed and preheated cooking surface. Repeat this step till all of your mixture is gone.

Cook your burgers for about 5 minutes on one side or lightly browned and then gently flip over and cook another 5 minutes. You can be the best judge on brownness level desired.

If you want to melt cheese on top doing it after half way through the final flip is the best time.

Once the burgers are all cooked you may dress your burgers immediately and enjoy.