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Phyllo Pigs in a Blanket

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,317 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 36 pigs

Ingredients

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

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. Butter + saucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15,317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Phyllo dough + saucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sesame + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together921 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Phyllo dough + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + sesametop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together406 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

Butter and sauce share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,317 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (phyllo dough, butter, sauce):

  1. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Pistachioabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Sesamethe original
  4. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against phyllo dough, butter, sauce. 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).