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Bulgur Salad with Lemon, Peas & Mint

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bulgur and sugar work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

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Contains: wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By williamssonoma. 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. Bulgur + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Mint + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Wheat + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Olive + caperstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the capers

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bulgur, wheat, olive, sugar, peas, mint, lemon):

  1. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Capersthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bulgur, wheat, olive, sugar, peas, mint, lemon. 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).