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Spicy Uighur Street Meat and Buttered Naan

By aspicyperspective · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,145 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

4-6 servings

Ingredients

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

  • For the Skewers
  • For the Naan

Directions

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By aspicyperspective. 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. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  2. Cumin + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Lamb + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  4. Olive + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,309 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + breadtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, olive, pepper, sugar, bread, flour, butter):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, olive, pepper, sugar, bread, flour, butter. 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).