Name: Smoky Sweet Potato, Black Bean & Brown Rice Veggie Burgers with Curry Cilantro Mayo
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 cup FOR THE CURRY CILANTRO MAYO:; 1-¼ teaspoon Veganaise Or Mayonnaise; 2 Tablespoons Curry Powder; 2 teaspoons Finely Chopped Cilantro Leaves; 1 pinch Lemon Juice; 3 cups Salt; 1 teaspoon FOR THE ROASTED SWEET POTATOES:; ½ teaspoons Diced Sweet Potatoes; ½ teaspoons Olive Oil; ½ teaspoons Cumin; ½ teaspoons Paprika; ¼ teaspoons Garlic Powder; 1 can Salt; 1 cup Pepper; 3 cups FOR THE BURGERS:; 2 Tablespoons (15 Oz. Size) Black Beans, Rinsed And Drained Well; 2 Tablespoons Cooked Brown Rice; ½ teaspoons Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Recipe Below; ½ teaspoons Chopped Red Onion; ½ teaspoons Chopped Cilantro Leaves; ¼ teaspoons Cumin; 6 whole Garlic Powder

Why it works: Cumin and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,188 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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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.

Cumin + beanstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,188 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Sweet potato + beanstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

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

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Coconutfits about as well
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, cumin, garlic, pepper, beans, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Red Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Smoky Sweet Potato, Black Bean & Brown Rice Veggie Burgers with Curry Cilantro Mayo