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Jewels Award Winning Turkey-Jasmine Burger Recipe

Unfortunately this is not one of my own-i wish i had made it up, but it's my favorite burger recipe so wanted to share it! It won Ultimate Recipe Showdown and...

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Why it works: Rice and jasmine work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 38 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

4 burgers

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat, peanut, soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Rice + jasminetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Cucumber + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together641 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cucumber + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Rice + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cucumber + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,049 recipes

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

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 (cucumber, rice, vinegar, sugar, jasmine, egg, sauce):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, rice, vinegar, sugar, jasmine, egg, sauce. 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).