Name: Homemade Greek Balsamic Vinegar
Ingredients: 1 x vinegar; 1 x greek oregano

Why it works: Vinegar and oregano work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 866 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Homemade Greek Balsamic Vinegar

Timea few weeks

Ingredients

1 x vinegar
1 x greek oregano

Directions

Prepare

Decide how much vinegar you want to steep and choose a wide-mouthed jar of that size.
Fill the jar with roughly equal amounts of fresh Greek oregano, mint, and winter savory.
Bruise the leaves a bit.
Pour the vinegar over the herbs.

Steep

Put a layer of waxed paper and a couple of layers of plastic wrap over the mouth of the bottle to retard corrosion, then screw on the jar lid.
Place the jar on a sunny windowsill or on the deck for a few weeks.

Strain and bottle

Strain the vinegar through a coffee filter and return it to the original vinegar bottle.
Do not leave any herbs in the vinegar, and do not add any for decoration.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

8Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

1 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Oregano	1 tsp dried (1.8g)	5
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Vinegar + oreganotop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together866 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Vinegar: Acts as the steeping liquid that extracts flavour from the herbs and preserves the infusion.
Greek oregano: Provides the main aromatic, savoury herbal flavour that infuses into the vinegar.

“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.