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Why it works: Chayote and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

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By bbcfood. 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. Chayote + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Yam + chayotetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lime + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together305 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chayote

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yam, pepper, carrot, thyme, olive, egg, cheese):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Chayotethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yam, pepper, carrot, thyme, olive, egg, cheese. 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).