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Octopus a LA Gallega Recipe

Octopus is such a soft textured animal. Once cooked it becomes a bit chewy. It is one of Spain’s greatest delicacies in my opinion and again that is one of the reasons why we do so little to it.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,688 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Octopus a LA Gallega Recipe

4 people
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

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By lovefood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Potato + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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