Name: Bloody Mary Burger Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 800 well trimmed, coarsely minced beef, chilled; g onion, finely chopped; 1 celery stalk, peeled and finely chopped; 1 tomato ketchup; 2 horseradish relish; tbsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 chopped flat leaf parsley; tbsp splash vegetable or sunflower oil, for brushing; 1 celeriac, peeled; tbsp Granny Smith apple, peeled and cored; 1 good-quality crème fraîche; tbsp Dijon mustard; 1 soaked raisins; 1 olive oil; 1 onions, finely chopped; 6 garlic cloves, crushed; tbsp canned chopped tomatoes; 0.5 light brown sugar; tsp cider or white wine vinegar; 2 tomato purée; tbsp black treacle; 2 dried mustard powder; tbsp cm piece cinnamon stick; 2 toasted and crushed cumin seeds; 2 dried chilli flakes; 1600 ground cloves; g small bay leaf; 200 limes, juice only; g splash Tabasco sauce, to taste

Why it works: Ketchup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. 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.

Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,099 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,810 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,377 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Horseradish + parsleytop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together562 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Celery + horseradishtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together835 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, celery, tomato, ketchup, horseradish, sauce):

Capersfits better
Garlicfits about as well
Tarragonfits about as well
Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, celery, tomato, ketchup, horseradish, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Cloves	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Horseradish	not in our table	0
Relish	not in our table	0
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0
Celeriac	not in our table	0
Cider	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

Bloody Mary Burger Recipe