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Nut Burgers

"These no nonsense nut burgers are great. I have yet to find a recipe or a restaurant that makes as good of a version. Serve with chips... tortilla, blue corn, sweet potato, or other veggie chips. Use whichever types of nuts you like, or have handy such as pecans, walnut, hazelnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, or any combination of nuts you might like."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Nut Burgers

Why it works: Sunflower and chickpea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 56 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Nut Burgers

2 burgers
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1105Calories
36 gProtein
78 gFat
77 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Pita Bread1 slice (30g) white79
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Ranch1 tbsp (15g) dressing73
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salad Dressingnot 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. Sunflower + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Walnut + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together129 recipes

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

  3. Chickpea + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together314 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Chickpea + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, sunflower, chickpea, egg, parsley, pepper, olive):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, sunflower, chickpea, egg, parsley, pepper, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.