Name: Greek Pork Patties with Radish Tzatziki
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 250g very lean pork mince; handful fresh breadcrumbs; ½ small red onion , finely chopped; ½ garlic clove , crushed or finely chopped; finely grated zest ½ lemon (use the juice in the tzatziki); 1 tbsp oregano leaves, finely chopped; 1 medium egg; a little olive oil; 100g low-fat Greek yogurt; ½ tbsp chopped dill , plus extra to serve (optional); 8 small radishes , roughly chopped or sliced; ½ garlic clove , crushed; juice ½ lemon

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + oreganotop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,756 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Lemon + oreganotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together784 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Oregano + olivetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,443 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, garlic, oregano, egg, olive, yogurt):

Avocadofits better
Limefits about as well
Lemonthe original
Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, garlic, oregano, egg, olive, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Oregano	1 tsp dried (1.8g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4

Greek Pork Patties with Radish Tzatziki