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Alice's Italian Sausage Frittata Recipe

This originally came from a bed and breakfast style hotel that I stayed in years ago, but I've adapted it to my specs. It's pretty delicious, and you can adapt...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Basil and oregano match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,390 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Enough to feed 4-6

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Basil + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Oregano + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Basil + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Fennel + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-anethole (anise).

  5. Fennel + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, fennel, mushroom, basil, oregano, rosemary, egg):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, fennel, mushroom, basil, oregano, rosemary, egg. 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).