Name: Herby Lamb Burgers with Beetroot Mayo
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 400g lamb mince; 1 small red onion , ½ grated, ½ thinly sliced; handful parsley , roughly chopped; handful mint , roughly chopped; 1 tsp olive oil; 3 tbsp mayonnaise; 2 cooked beetroot , finely chopped; 4 bread rolls; couple handfuls watercress

Why it works: Beetroot and watercress match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 143 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Herby Lamb Burgers with Beetroot Mayo

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

995Calories

46 gProtein

41 gFat

106 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Lamb	100g cooked	294
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Watercress	1 cup (34g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Peppermint	not in our table	0
Beetroot	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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Beetroot + watercresstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together143 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Parsley + watercresstop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together469 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Parsley + beetroottop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together745 recipes

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

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,649 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Parsley + minttop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,198 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, onion, parsley, olive, beetroot, bread, watercress):

Capersfits better
Garlicfits better
Cuminfits better
Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, onion, parsley, olive, beetroot, bread, watercress. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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