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Bagel Sandwiches

Miniature or full size, these sandwiches are layered with flavor, fun to make and perfect for a bagel brunch party. Just line up the herbed cream cheese, a selection of toasted bagels, the sliced vegetables and the salmon and let guests assemble their own.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Dill and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 976 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, fish (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. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Dill + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together530 recipes

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

  4. Dill + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,630 recipes

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

  5. Chive + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, dill, chive, capers, lemon, pepper, cucumber):

  1. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, dill, chive, capers, lemon, pepper, cucumber. 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).