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Speedy Bagel Tuna Melt

"A delicious tuna melt with some Dijon mustard to spice things up. Positively kid-friendly!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and bagel work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

1 serving
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Mustard + bageltop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Mustard + cheddar cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together708 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Bagel + cheddar cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bagel, cheddar cheese):

  1. Onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Welsh onionabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bagel, cheddar cheese. 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).