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Roasted Onions Agrodolce Recipe

Cooking these slightly sharp-flavored onions agrodolce style (in a sweet-and-sour sauce) turns them into meltingly sweet little morsels. They're substantial enough...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Roasted Onions Agrodolce Recipe

Why it works: Onion and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,779 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Roasted Onions Agrodolce Recipe

3 to 4 servings
Prep40 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

347Calories
5 gProtein
17 gFat
40 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Olive + red winetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, olive, red wine, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, olive, red wine, vinegar, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.