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Watermelon Salad with Burrata and Yogurt Dressing

By aspicyperspective · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Yogurt and burrata work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 1 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4-6 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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

  • For the Yogurt Dressing
  • For the Watermelon Salad

Directions

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By aspicyperspective. 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. Yogurt + burratatop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Yogurt + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Pepper + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 recipes

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

  5. Mandarin orange + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, olive, champagne, vinegar, pepper, tomato, burrata):

  1. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  2. Peachbetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, olive, champagne, vinegar, pepper, tomato, burrata. 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).