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Salad From Sopovo

A salad of diced tomatoes, green peppers, hot peppers, feta cheese, and vinaigrette of olive oil, white wine vinegar, garlic, and salt, garnished with parsley.

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Why it works: Tomato and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 14,164 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place tomatoes, green peppers, and hot peppers in a large bowl.

  2. Combine oil, vinegar, salt, and garlic; pour over tomato mixture and toss.

Finish and serve

  1. Top with cheese.

  2. Garnish with parsley.

  3. To serve, toss cheese cubes with tomato mixture.

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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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Diced tomatoes
Provide the juicy base that the dressing coats and moistens.
Olive oil or vegetable oil
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour through the salad.
White wine vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavours and balances the oil.
Feta or provolone cheese
Adds salty, creamy body that holds its shape in the salad.
Green peppers
Add crisp texture and fresh, grassy flavour.

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, white wine, vinegar, garlic, olive, provolone cheese):

  1. Basilbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, white wine, vinegar, garlic, olive, provolone 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).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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