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Green Club Sandwich

This healthy sandwich is packed full of goodness to keep you going until dinner

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rye and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 1, easily doubled
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: bread

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Toast the three slices of wholegrain or rye bread until golden, about 2 minutes per side in a toaster or 3 to 4 minutes under a grill.

  2. Spread the houmous evenly over all three toast slices.

  3. Stone and slice the avocado, then arrange the slices on the first slice of toast.

  4. Pile the rocket leaves on top of the avocado.

  5. Scatter the sliced cherry tomatoes over the rocket.

  6. Place the second slice of toast houmous side up on top, then add the remaining layer of avocado and rocket if you like, and press lightly.

  7. Top with the third slice of toast, houmous side down, press gently, and cut the sandwich diagonally into quarters with a sharp knife to serve.

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. Rye + avocadotop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Avocado + cherry tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Rye + cherry tomatotop 29% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rye, avocado):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rye, avocado. 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).