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Mile-high Chickpea Burgers with Indian Purple Coleslaw Recipe

These burgers are spicy and deeply satisfying. Put aside any preconceptions of bland, mass-produced bean burgers, these are so much more.

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Why it works: Cumin and chickpea match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 473 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Cumin + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Cumin + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,866 recipes

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

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Ginger + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,504 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Coriander + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pomegranate

The recipe marks pomegranate as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cumin, onion, ginger, garlic, coriander, chickpea, bread):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cumin, onion, ginger, garlic, coriander, chickpea, bread. 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).