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Sweetcorn Fritters with Slow-cooked Tomatoes

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and sweetcorn work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 115 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Heat the oven to 300°F (150°C). Arrange the tomato halves cut side up on a baking tray, sprinkle with the pinch of sugar, drizzle with a little olive oil and roast for 35 to 40 minutes until soft and slightly caramelised.

  2. In a large bowl, mix the sweetcorn, flour and baking powder. In a jug, whisk the beaten eggs and yolks with the milk and melted butter, then stir into the dry ingredients to make a thick batter.

  3. Stir the spring onions, chilli, lime juice, feta, chopped basil and parsley, and chopped olives into the batter.

  4. Heat a little olive oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Spoon in small fritters about 3 inches (7.5 cm) wide and cook 2 to 3 minutes per side until golden and cooked through. Work in batches and keep warm.

  5. Toss the rocket with a drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of lime juice.

  6. Serve the fritters with the slow-cooked tomatoes, dressed rocket and avocado cream.

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. Tomato + sweetcorntop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Plum + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together426 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  5. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, sugar, avocado, cream, sweetcorn, flour, egg):

  1. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, sugar, avocado, cream, sweetcorn, flour, 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).