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Lentil and Swiss Chard Tacos

To this day, there are some things that I still am slightly afraid to make.  Things that seem complicated or things I've messed up on a few times in the past.

By naturallyella · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Lentils and chard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

2-4
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

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

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By naturallyella. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Lentils + chardtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + chardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + oreganotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,288 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Oregano + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Olive + lentilstop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together662 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, oregano, honey, cocoa powder, lentils, chard, corn):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, oregano, honey, cocoa powder, lentils, chard, corn. 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).