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Best Ever Veggie Burgers

"After trying many different recipes for a healthier, non-soy veggie burger, I came up with this. It's really versatile and you can use any combination of nuts and beans. After the baking step, you can brown in a frying pan, throw on the grill to brown, or freeze to use later."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Best Ever Veggie Burgers

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 ↓

Best Ever Veggie Burgers

12 burgers
Prep20 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

876Calories
38 gProtein
41 gFat
92 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Olive1 large (4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Flaxseednot 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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Beans + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Beans + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, onion, rice, almond, mushroom, olive, garlic):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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