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Marinated Summer Vegetables

Adding the summer vegetables to the marinade while warm helps them absorb more flavor.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Marinated Summer Vegetables

Why it works: Garlic and oregano are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,756 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Marinated Summer Vegetables

6 servings

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By bonappetit. 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. Garlic + oreganotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,756 recipes

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

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Clove + oreganotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together556 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Olive + oreganotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,443 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, garlic, clove, sherry, oregano):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Plumbetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, garlic, clove, sherry, oregano. 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).