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Tomato Tarts

An excellent way of using up an excess of home grown tomatoes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 913 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Mustard + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together913 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Egg + mustardtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,549 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + thymetop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Mustard + cherry tomatotop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cherry tomato + thymetop 39% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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 (egg, mustard, thyme):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Red currantbetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, mustard, thyme. 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).