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Whole Water Chestnuts Wrapped in Bacon

This is a great party appetizer or snack for friends or your family.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Water chestnut and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep12 min
Cook18 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. Water chestnut + yogurttop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Yogurt + srirachatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together32 recipes

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

  3. Water chestnut + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Yogurt + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,425 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylethanol (rose, floral).

  5. Pepper + srirachatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sriracha

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (water chestnut, yogurt, pepper):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. Srirachathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against water chestnut, yogurt, pepper. 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).