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Dried Chile Salsa

This salsa requires just four ingredients: dried chiles, garlic, and apple cider vinegar, and salt.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Dried Chile Salsa

Why it works: Garlic and clove are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Dried Chile Salsa

1 cup

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

7Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
1 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By bonappetit. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + apple cider vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Clove + apple cider vinegartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, apple cider vinegar):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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