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Fig Salad with Goat's Milk Yogurt and Pepper Cress

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and fig match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,025 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 6 servings

Ingredients

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. Milk + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,025 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Vanilla + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together324 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Honey + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  5. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, yogurt, goat cheese, honey, vanilla, fig, pepper):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Pearbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, yogurt, goat cheese, honey, vanilla, fig, 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).