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Onion Tart

Tarts and quiches make great starters or lunches and are useful if you have guests and want something you can make ahead

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and feta cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,030 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 - 6

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Onion + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + feta cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25,834 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, onion, sugar, cream, egg, feta cheese):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, onion, sugar, cream, egg, feta cheese. 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).