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Olive Bread

"Delicious with any soup or salad... and great toasted the next day!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Olive Bread

Why it works: Olive and rosemary are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,590 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Olive Bread

2 loaves
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

760Calories
13 gProtein
29 gFat
111 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Olive1 large (4g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Olive + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Flour + sesametop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rosemary + sesametop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

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

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

Swap the sesame

The recipe marks sesame as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (molasses, olive, bread, flour, rosemary):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Sesamethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against molasses, olive, bread, flour, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.