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A healthy, low calorie, savory Mediterranean dip that is made with roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and feta cheese and topped with vegetables and a drizzle of balsamic glaze.

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Why it works: Feta cheese and banana share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 14
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Feta cheese + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Cumin + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Beans + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, garlic, pepper, lemon, cumin, oregano, feta cheese):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, garlic, pepper, lemon, cumin, oregano, feta cheese. 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).