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Fig Carpaccio with Lemon and Honey Frisee Salad and Candied Walnuts

Looking to wow your guests? Be sure to try this amazing fig carpaccio with lemon and honey frisee salad, prosciutto, candied walnuts and shaved Parmesan.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

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By tastykitchen. 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. Fig + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Mustard + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,356 recipes

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

  3. Honey + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Shallot + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Walnut + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-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 shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, sugar, lemon, mustard, honey, olive, fig):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, sugar, lemon, mustard, honey, olive, fig. 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).