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Greek Turkey Burgers with Tzatziki Sauce

These burgers are made with lean turkey, frozen chopped spinach, and crumbled feta. They are so flavorful and healthy!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and turkey match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,637 recipes mention both. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 5

Ingredients

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

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By tastykitchen. 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. Pepper + turkeytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,637 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cucumber + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together530 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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, yogurt, lemon, mint, dill, pepper, turkey):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, yogurt, lemon, mint, dill, pepper, turkey. 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).