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Roasted Vegetables with Pomegranate Vinaigrette

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Why it works: Fennel and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 337 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s

Ingredients

  • For the vinaigrette

Directions

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By biggirlssmallkitchen. 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. Fennel + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together337 recipes

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

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Fennel + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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 (fennel, carrot, onion, sweet potato, olive, garlic, thyme):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, carrot, onion, sweet potato, olive, garlic, thyme. 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).