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Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato with Croque Monsieur

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 37 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,654 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Tomato + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,654 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Tomato + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Leek + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, leek, celery, carrot, shallot, tomato, basil):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, leek, celery, carrot, shallot, tomato, basil. 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).