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Brussel Leaf and Baby Spinach Sauté

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,700 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (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. Olive + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Olive + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Spinach + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Olive + white winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,764 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. White wine + spinachtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (brussels sprouts, olive, white wine, maple syrup, spinach):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Peasbetter flavor fit
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against brussels sprouts, olive, white wine, maple syrup, spinach. 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).