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Garlic and Herb Dip

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Why it works: Garlic and sambal work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 77 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

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By delishhh. 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 + sambaltop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Yogurt + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Onion + chivetop 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 sambal

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, garlic, honey, onion, pepper, chive):

  1. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Sambalthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, garlic, honey, onion, pepper, chive. 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).