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Sweetcorn Fritters with Crispy Bacon and Tomatoes

Sweetcorn fritters are a nice alternative to other types of burger, and easy to jazz up with your own choice of sauces or spices. This is designed to be a low cost recipe.

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Why it works: Sweetcorn and tomato work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 115 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Sweetcorn + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together115 recipes

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

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Pepper + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Milk + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,223 recipes

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

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