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Vicki's Tangerine Martini

"This is an adult crowd pleaser and my answer to what to do with all the tangerines on my tree. It is refreshing and oh, so good!"

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Vicki's Tangerine Martini

Why it works: Tangerine and orange work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Vicki's Tangerine Martini

1 martini
Prep10 min

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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. Tangerine + orangetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Vodka + orangetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together202 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Tangerine + vodkatop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes

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

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vodka, orange):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vodka, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.