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Harissa-spiced Lamb Burgers with Sweet Potato Wedges

A dollop of spicy harissa gives these burgers a great chilli kick, while the yogurt cools it down

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and harissa work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Lamb + harissatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Olive + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Olive + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,304 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Cucumber + yogurttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Olive + lambtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, lamb, harissa, cucumber, yogurt):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, lamb, harissa, cucumber, yogurt. 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).