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DIY Party Combos - Fig, Mozzarella & Parma Ham

There's nothing complicated at all about this party food. Just get a whole tray of forks together and lay out your ingredients. The ideas I'm giving you are simply for things I think go really well together, but if there are certain combos you love, get those going too. The beauty of these wonderful forkfuls is that they can be rattled out in no time flat. So you can make them as you're chatting to your guests, or rope your partner or mate into rattling 10 or 20 out. It's about putting things you like the taste of together, on a fork or in a spoon… Simple!

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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DIY Party Combos - Fig, Mozzarella & Parma Ham

Why it works: Fig and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 223 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

DIY Party Combos - Fig, Mozzarella & Parma Ham

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

486Calories
34 gProtein
34 gFat
10 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Fig1 medium (50g)37
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Buffalonot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0

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

By jamieoliver. 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. Fig + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together223 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Mint + olivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,240 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Fig + minttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Buffalo + olivetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the fig

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (buffalo, mint, ham, olive, vinegar):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Figthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against buffalo, mint, ham, olive, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.