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Lemon-Tahini Sauce

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tahini and lemon work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 388 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

makes about 1 cup

Ingredients

Contains: sesame (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. Tahini + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

  3. Sesame + tahinitop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,294 recipes

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

  5. Sesame + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,999 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, tahini, garlic, lemon):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, tahini, garlic, lemon. 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).