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If you want to try another recipe with buckwheat, you can cook it like rice. You rinse the buckwheat, and then you boil it. At the end drain it, and add a sauce (usually butter) and it's ready to eat.

I used to eat it in that way (outside Italy), and it's normally a side of a main dish, for example roasted chicken and buckwheat (instead of potatoes).

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Is it sticky? I'm trying to create a good veggie-burger, and need something that can form a patty when I mix in the beans etc.

Mashed it might stick together. The whole grains are way less sticky on the outside than rice.

I'm sorry, it never happen to me that got sticky, even when I cook it without rinsing it and without adding butter.

If you need to make them vegetarian and not vegan, I recommend eggs that are a good binder.

If you need to go vegan you can try with a starch binder, for example you can use cornflour mixed with water (I find easy to make a cornflour binder, by cooking some water and adding cornflour slowly with a strainer and mixing well, then cooking it until the consistency is dense enough) when it gets cold the cornflour mix becomes a gelatine ball. You can try also using mashed potatoes, but you need to be careful with water.

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