• 1 ½ cups arborio rice cooked
• 1 ½ cups quinoa cooked
• 1 ½ cups dried mushrooms chopped (any variety – I used Lobster & Mastutake)
• 2 puya chiles reconstituted with boiling water and chopped fine
• ½ cup green bell pepper finely diced
• 2 tbsp chili powder
• kosher salt to taste
• black pepper to taste
• ½ cup all purpose flour
• ⅓ cup water
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs
• 4 burger buns of choice

Vanilla BBQ Sauce

• 1 cup ketchup
• ¼ cup unsulfured molasses
• ¼ white distilled vinegar
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 3 tbsp dijon mustard grainy or smooth
• 1 tsp hot sauce like Tabasco
• 2 tsp sriracha sauce
• 1 ½ tsp hickory liquid smoke
• ½ whole vanilla bean slip lengthwise, seeds scraped
• kosher salt to taste
• black pepper to taste