Pork Belly Pimento Cheese Burger

Name: Pork Belly Pimento Cheese Burger
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 pound FOR THE PORK BELLY:; 3 cups Skin-on Pork Belly; 1 Tablespoon Chicken Stock; 1 pound Kosher Salt And Freshly Ground Pepper, To Taste; 1 pound Cooking Oil; 1 teaspoon FOR THE BURGERS:; 1 cup Ground Beef; 4 whole Ground Veal; 4 slices Tabasco; 1 cup Salt And Pepper, to taste

This pork belly burger with pimento cheese needs to get into your belly!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients

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Why it works: Pork and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Pork Belly Pimento Cheese Burger

Serves 4

Prep1 hr

Cook1 hr

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

782Calories

84 gProtein

46 gFat

2 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Pork	100g cooked	242
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Veal	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,690 recipes

Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).
Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,417 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,148 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pork + vealtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,930 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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