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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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Why it works: Fig and ham work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Fig + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Olive + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Mint + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Fig + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Fig + minttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

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

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fig, buffalo, ham, olive, vinegar. 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).