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Dilled Yogurt Eggplant Spread

A spread made from grilled eggplant, roasted garlic, yogurt, dill, parsley, walnuts, and seasonings.

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Why it works: Eggplant and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

Prepare the eggplant

  1. Paint eggplant with olive oil and grill.

Make the spread

  1. Put eggplant in processor.

  2. Add garlic, yogurt, lemon juice, dill, parsley, walnuts, salt and pepper.

  3. Process until pureed.

Serve

  1. Serve in hollowed out head of cabbage or on a dish.

  2. Optionally dilute with chicken broth to make a soup.

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Explore the science

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. Eggplant + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Dill + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together668 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  3. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

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

  5. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggplant
Forms the creamy, smoky-flavored body of the spread once grilled and pureed.
Non-fat yogurt
Adds tang and a creamy, moist texture to the spread.
Garlic
Contributes pungent aroma and savory depth to the spread.
Walnuts
Add richness and a slightly crunchy, nutty texture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the yogurt.

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (eggplant, olive, garlic, yogurt, lemon, dill, parsley):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Sesameabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against eggplant, olive, garlic, yogurt, lemon, dill, parsley. 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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