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Poached Eggs in Tomato Sauce with Chickpeas and Feta

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and pita bread work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 4–6 servings

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Chickpea + pita breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Chickpea + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, chickpea, cumin, tomato, pepper, egg):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Eggplantbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, chickpea, cumin, tomato, pepper, egg. 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).