Name: Plain Parathas
Ingredients: 2 cups whole wheat flour (atta); 1/2 tsp salt; 3 tbsp cooking oil; water, as required

Why it works: Wheat and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,373 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Plain Parathas

Ingredients

2 cups whole wheat flour (atta)
1/2 tsp salt
3 tbsp cooking oil
water, as required

Directions

Prepare

Add salt and 1 tbsp of oil to flour and knead into a smooth dough, using as much water as needed.
Separate dough into golf-sized balls and roll each one into thin circles.

Cook and serve

Cook on a non-stick pan, adding oil a little at a time to form a crispy texture.
Serve warm.

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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.

Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,373 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

Whole wheat flour (atta): Forms the dough structure and base of the bread.
Cooking oil: Adds fat to the dough for tenderness and helps build a crispy, browned surface in the pan.

“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.