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Roast Tomatoes and Thyme

A simple vegetable dish.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,370 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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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. Tomato + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,370 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Thyme + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,210 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, thyme, olive, garlic, anchovy):

  1. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, thyme, olive, garlic, anchovy. 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).