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A sauce made from finely chopped green onions, chilies, olive oil, vinegar, and salt, optionally flavored with garlic or eschalot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Modern Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop green onions and chilies finely.

  2. Combine with any of the optional ingredients you choose.

  3. Add salt to taste.

Make the sauce

  1. Mix in olive oil and vinegar until you achieve a thick sauce consistency.

Serve

  1. Serve as a sauce with curry, cutlets, steaks, pork, cold meat, or fish.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Peach + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Peach + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Green onions
Provide the main fresh, sharp flavor and bulk of the sauce.
Chilies
Add heat and pungency to the sauce.
Olive oil
Adds fat and body, helping bind the chopped ingredients into a thick sauce.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavors and balances the oil.

The step that matters

Mix in olive oil and vinegar until thick. Oil and vinegar do not emulsify on their own, so the sauce can separate or turn thin if mixed too little or too much. Mixing gently until the chopped solids are evenly coated gives a consistent, spoonable texture.

Swap the garlic

The recipe marks garlic as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, olive, vinegar, peach, mango, banana, tomato):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Basilfits about as well
  3. Peppermintfits about as well
  4. Corianderfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, olive, vinegar, peach, mango, banana, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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