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Eggplant Tomato Bake

"This is a simple, easy and low-fat recipe."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Eggplant and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 651 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Eggplant + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Tomato + parmesan cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,490 recipes

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

  3. Eggplant + parmesan cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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