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Fattoush Salad

By whatsgabycooking · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,409 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

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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. Lettuce + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,409 recipes

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

  2. Sumac + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cucumber + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together884 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,400 recipes

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

  5. Olive + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,304 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, sumac, lettuce, butter, onion, cucumber, mint):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, sumac, lettuce, butter, onion, cucumber, mint. 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).