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"A healthy way to grill veggies! Makes a great sandwich too!"

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Why it works: Onion and garlic 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

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a large bowl, whisk the olive oil, soy sauce, lemon juice and crushed garlic until combined.

  2. Add the sliced zucchini, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, yellow squash, red onion and mushrooms to the bowl and toss to coat evenly.

  3. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, tossing once halfway through.

  4. Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium-high heat until hot.

  5. Lift the vegetables out of the marinade, reserving the marinade. Grill for 3 to 4 minutes per side until tender-crisp.

  6. Add the cherry tomatoes to the grill for about 2 minutes, turning gently, until just softened and blistered.

  7. Arrange everything on a platter and drizzle with the reserved marinade. Serve warm or chilled.

By allrecipes. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Mushroom + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Mushroom + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, onion, mushroom, olive, sauce, lemon, garlic):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, onion, mushroom, olive, sauce, lemon, garlic. 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).