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Roasted Eggplant and Walnut Dip Recipe

Charred eggplant, toasted walnuts, bright herbs, and sweet honey combine in an addictive dip that's as versatile as hummus.This recipe was featured as part of...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Eggplant and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

1 1/2 cups

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Eggplant + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Eggplant + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together801 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  5. Eggplant + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (eggplant, olive, walnut, parsley, lemon, honey):

  1. Basilbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against eggplant, olive, walnut, parsley, lemon, honey. 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).