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Dipping Sauce

"Dipping sauce for a fried onion."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Oregano and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,449 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a bowl, stir the mayonnaise and ketchup together until smooth and evenly colored.

  2. Add the prepared horseradish, paprika, salt, dried oregano and ground black pepper, then stir until fully combined.

  3. Add the cayenne pepper a pinch at a time, tasting after each addition, until the sauce has the heat you like.

  4. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so the flavors can blend.

  5. Stir the sauce once more before serving chilled with your choice of dippers.

By allrecipes. 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. Oregano + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Ketchup + horseradishtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together223 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Horseradish + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Horseradish + oreganotop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Ketchup + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,205 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ketchup, horseradish, pepper):

  1. Celerybetter flavor fit
  2. Allspicebetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ketchup, horseradish, pepper. 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).