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Grilled Turkey Burgers with Cranberry Horseradish Dressing

"This is my favorite recipe! We had these at my niece's birthday party, and it was a hit. They are the moistest turkey burgers you will ever have. I usually make a double batch and form into patties and then freeze them. Pull them out when you are ready to grill! Delicious and moist! Best burgers ever!"

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Why it works: Berry and parsley share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

The recipe

8 burgers
Prep25 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a small bowl, stir the whole berry cranberry sauce, prepared horseradish, lemon juice, ground cumin, and a pinch each of salt and black pepper until smooth. Taste and add more lemon juice if you like. Refrigerate until serving.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the egg, minced celery, minced onion, dry bread crumbs, chopped thyme, poultry seasoning, chopped parsley, and salt and black pepper to taste.

  3. Add the ground turkey to the bowl and mix gently with your hands until just combined. Do not overwork the meat.

  4. Divide the mixture into 8 equal portions and shape each into a patty about 3/4 inch (2 cm) thick. Press a shallow dent in the center of each patty.

  5. Refrigerate the patties for 15 minutes to firm up.

  6. Preheat the grill to medium-high, about 450°F (232°C), and clean the grates well.

  7. Grill the patties for about 5 minutes per side, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part reads 165°F (74°C).

  8. During the last minute of grilling, place the split hamburger buns cut side down on the grill until lightly toasted. Serve each burger on a bun with a spoonful of the cranberry horseradish dressing.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Berry + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (berry, cranberry, sauce, horseradish, lemon, pepper, egg):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against berry, cranberry, sauce, horseradish, lemon, pepper, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).