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Feta & Pepper Tortilla

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and feta cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,003 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (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. Pepper + feta cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,003 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Olive + feta cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Potato + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Pepper + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, olive, egg, feta cheese):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, olive, egg, feta 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).