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Twisty Rye Breadsticks

These stunning breadsticks are made with a mixture of white and rye flour dough with a distinct bay background flavour - with caraway seed, Kalamata olives and smoked peperoncino flakes added too. The sticks are decorated with black poppy seeds on one side and coarse semolina on the other before being twisted.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and semolina match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 325 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Twisty Rye Breadsticks

Makes 18 breadsticks
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

661Calories
16 gProtein
16 gFat
111 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Rye1 slice (32g)83
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Caraway Seednot in our table0
Semolinanot in our table0
Poppy Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + semolinatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Rye + carawaytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Flour + carawaytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + ryetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,320 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rye + poppy seedtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, rye, olive, caraway, semolina):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, rye, olive, caraway, semolina. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.