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The Best Bleu Burgers Recipe

I came up with this recipe while in culinary school for a dinner party with my friends. These are my friend Bryon's favorite burgers!

By chow · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The Best Bleu Burgers Recipe

4 hearty burgers

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

797Calories
45 gProtein
57 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Provolone Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Port Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Trufflenot in our table0

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

By chow. 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.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, shallot, sauce, cheese, mushroom, port wine):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, shallot, sauce, cheese, mushroom, port wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.