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Spicy Tortilla Nests

Use up leftover cooked mince in this fun kids' recipe. It makes a great little starter or snack.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,551 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 4 tortilla nests
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Olive + beeftop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Olive + kidney beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Beef + kidney beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together401 recipes

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

  4. Olive + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together13,452 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + beeftop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together10,359 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Olive and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 13,452 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 kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, flour, beef):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  3. Almondbetter flavor fit
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, flour, beef. 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).