Name: Greek Chicken Stuffed Pitas
Ingredients: 2 cups plain non-fat Greek yogurt; 1/2 English cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced; 1 lemon, juiced; 1 cloves garlic, super finely chopped; 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill; Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste; 2 cup cooked shredded chicken; 1/2 cup tzatziki sauce; 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced; 1 ripe Hass avocado, sliced; 4 whole wheat pitas; Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste

Why it works: Lemon and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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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.

Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together976 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cucumber + dilltop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together530 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Cucumber + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,556 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, cucumber, lemon, garlic, dill, pepper, chicken):

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Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, cucumber, lemon, garlic, dill, pepper, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Wheat	not in our table	0

Greek Chicken Stuffed Pitas