Name: Marinated Summer Vegetables
Yield: Makes 6 servings
Ingredients: 3 summer squash or zucchini (about 1 pound), sliced on a diagonal 1/2" thick; 3 red, orange, or yellow bell peppers, cut into 1" strips; 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided; Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper; 2 garlic cloves; 2 tablespoons Sherry or red wine vinegar; 4 sprigs oregano

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

Makes 6 servings

Ingredients

3 summer squash or zucchini (about 1 pound), sliced on a diagonal 1/2" thick
3 red, orange, or yellow bell peppers, cut into 1" strips
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper
2 garlic cloves
2 tablespoons Sherry or red wine vinegar
4 sprigs oregano

Directions

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By epicurious. 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.

Garlic + oreganotop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together3,756 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together25,665 recipes

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

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together556 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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):

Limebetter flavor fit
Lemonbetter flavor fit
Plumbetter flavor fit
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).

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