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Cracked Wheat Salad with Green Olives and Golden Raisins

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 937 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Wheat + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Lemon + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, bulgur, lemon, olive, pepper, parsley, mint):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, bulgur, lemon, olive, pepper, parsley, mint. 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).