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Critter Fritter Casserole Recipe

At the Texas State Fair, I indulged in a small and delicious treat called a Critter Fritter. It was a jalapeno stuffed with meat, breaded and fried and covered...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and oregano match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 983 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

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By chow. 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. Cumin + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Cumin + jalapenotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Garlic + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + oreganotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,756 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 jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, garlic, pepper, cumin, oregano, cheddar cheese):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, garlic, pepper, cumin, oregano, cheddar 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).