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Sweet Potato and Black Bean Turkey Burgers with Sriracha-Lime Crema

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Why it works: Sweet potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 177 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep30 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Sweet potato + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Cumin + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

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

  3. Beans + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Sweet potato + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, beans, turkey, garlic, cumin, cream):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, beans, turkey, garlic, cumin, cream. 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).