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Tamarind Chicken Patties with Papaya Salsa

Thrifty and low-fat chicken mince is given a tropical makeover in these fabulous mini burgers, served with rice noodles

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Tamarind and papaya share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg (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. Tamarind + papayatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  2. Chicken + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Ginger + tamarindtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, ginger, egg, tamarind, rice, olive):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, ginger, egg, tamarind, rice, olive. 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).