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Why it works: Chickpea and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 48 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

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Makes 4 servings

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Contains: milk (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. Chickpea + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Artichoke + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Basil + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,820 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  5. Basil + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chickpea

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, beef, basil, capers, lemon, olive, pepper):

  1. Chickpeathe original
  2. Beansabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, beef, basil, capers, lemon, olive, 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).