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Sticky Sausage Burgers with Blue Cheese

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Sticky Sausage Burgers with Blue Cheese

Why it works: Pork and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 130 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Sticky Sausage Burgers with Blue Cheese

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

902Calories
32 gProtein
36 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork Sausage100g cooked301
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Saladnot 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 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.

  1. Pork + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pork + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + blue cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together329 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, blue cheese):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.