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Falafel Flatbreads with Tahini Sauce

Forget shop-bought falafels, make your own and create a Middle Eastern lunch or supper in just 20 minutes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and tahini work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Lettuce + tahinitop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Cumin + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  5. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, parsley, cumin, chickpea, egg, onion, olive):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, parsley, cumin, chickpea, egg, onion, olive. 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).