Name: Salada Baladi with Khalta Li-l-Salata
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon oil; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 1 teaspoon vinegar; salt and pepper; 1-2 crushed garlic cloves; pinch of cumin; hot chili (powder or sauce)

Why it works: Garlic and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,082 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Salada Baladi with Khalta Li-l-Salata

Ingredients

Directions

Combine your favorite chopped salad vegetables in a large bowl. Serve with the following salad dressing.
Mix ingredients and serve over salad immediately before serving.
Category:Egyptian Recipes
Category:Egyptian Salads

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

167Calories

2 gProtein

15 gFat

10 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

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

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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.

Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,306 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Pepper + cumintop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,382 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, pepper, garlic, clove, cumin, sauce):

Limefits better
Avocadofits about as well
Lemonthe original
Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, pepper, garlic, clove, cumin, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.