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Fetat Jaj with Deaa

"This Arabic casserole starts out with cut up bread on the bottom soaked with chicken broth and then topped with rice and chicken."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,030 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

1 large casserole
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Lemon + cardamomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together405 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Allspice + cardamomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together137 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + allspicetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, garlic, lemon, chicken, onion, allspice, cardamom):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, garlic, lemon, chicken, onion, allspice, cardamom. 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).