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Cajun-spiced Fish Burger

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Cajun-spiced Fish Burger

Why it works: Onion and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,192 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Cajun-spiced Fish Burger

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

396Calories
37 gProtein
20 gFat
15 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tuna100g cooked132
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Saladnot in our table0
Cakenot in our table0
Beetrootnot 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. Onion + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

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

  2. Sesame + beetroottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Onion + beetroottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,261 recipes

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

  5. Sesame + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together315 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, sesame, beetroot):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

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