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Laura's Stuffed Burgers with Zinfandel Sauce

"These burgers are bursting with flavor! Seasoned meat stuffed with fontina and bacon topped with Gorgonzola and a red Zinfandel mushroom sauce! Make sure you're hungry, these burgers are very filling!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Laura's Stuffed Burgers with Zinfandel Sauce

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Laura's Stuffed Burgers with Zinfandel Sauce

2 burgers
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

669Calories
42 gProtein
42 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Soupnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, sauce, garlic, cheese, olive, mushroom):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, sauce, garlic, cheese, olive, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.