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Vegetarian Lentil Burger Recipe

Tasty, hearty vegetarian lentil burger recipe. Slathered with saffron yogurt and stuffed with avocado, lettuce, and onions.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 999 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 12 mini burgers.

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By 101cookbooks. 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. Bread + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Lentils + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together662 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  3. Onion + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  4. Egg + breadtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,584 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Lentils + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,221 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (lentils, egg, bread, olive):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, egg, bread, 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).