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Loaded Turkey and Hummus Mediterranean Panini

By pickypalate · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and feta cheese work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 2 recipes mention both. Both carry hexyl acetate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

4 half sandwiches

Ingredients

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

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By pickypalate. 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. Turkey + feta cheesetop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  2. Provolone cheese + feta cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Olive + feta cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Cucumber + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, bread, turkey, provolone cheese, pepper, olive, feta cheese):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread, turkey, provolone cheese, pepper, olive, 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).