Name: Baked Guavas Stuffed with Mushrooms and Olives
Ingredients: 6 Guavas; 1 tbsp Oil; 1 cup Mushrooms, chopped; 1 tbsp Onion, chopped; 1/2 cup Green olives, chopped; 2 tbsp Parsley, chopped; 4 tsp Chopped fresh dill weed or; 1 tsp Dried dill; 1/2 tsp Each salt and pepper; 1 tbsp Sesame seeds

Why it works: Parsley and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 669 recipes. Both carry p-mentha-1,3,8-triene, which smells camphor, herbal. The science ↓

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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.

Parsley + dilltop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together669 recipes

Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).
Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Onion + sesametop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,192 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,630 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Olive + sesametop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,111 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Guavas: Form the edible shell that holds the filling and softens into tender fruit when baked.
Mushrooms: Add moisture and savory umami flavor that concentrates as they soften in the oil.
Green olives: Contribute briny, salty flavor that contrasts with the sweet guava.
Sesame seeds: Add nutty flavor and light browning on the surface during baking.

The step that matters

Sautéing the filling until the vegetables are soft. Cooking the mushrooms and onion until soft drives off their water before stuffing. Excess moisture would otherwise leak into the guavas and make the filling watery and loose during baking.

Swap the guava

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, onion, olive, parsley, dill, pepper, sesame):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Lemonfits better
Guavathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, onion, olive, parsley, dill, pepper, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sesame	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Guava	not in our table	0

Baked Guavas Stuffed with Mushrooms and Olives