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Bacon and Egg Sandwiches with Pickled Spring Onions

If you've ever woken up with a hangover, you know why egg sandwiches have earned their spot in the comfort-food cannon. This version boasts a runny yolk, fatty bacon, and pickled spring onions to keep the fat attach in check.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Bacon and Egg Sandwiches with Pickled Spring Onions

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bacon and Egg Sandwiches with Pickled Spring Onions

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

842Calories
24 gProtein
22 gFat
135 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Sriracha1 tsp (5g)5
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Sriracha + eggtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together154 recipes

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Apple cider vinegar + maple syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the sriracha

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, apple cider vinegar, sugar, maple syrup, bread, butter, egg):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Srirachathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, apple cider vinegar, sugar, maple syrup, bread, butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.