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Chickpea and Roasted Red Pepper Burgers with Smoked Paprika Mayonnaise

Even partisans of traditional burgers will be won over by these healthful vegetarian patties, and slathering them with a smoky mayonnaise makes them even more appealing. Set out paper-thin red onion slices for those who might want them, and garnish each plate with pickle slices or wedges.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 48 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 5.

Ingredients

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Chickpea + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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

  4. Garlic + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

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

  5. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 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 potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, olive, garlic, cumin, chickpea, pepper, egg):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, olive, garlic, cumin, chickpea, 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).