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Whipped Green Olive & Lemon Butter with Toast

This tangy olive and citrus butter is delicious spread on toast and served as part of a light starter platter

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Whipped Green Olive & Lemon Butter with Toast

Why it works: Lemon and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,922 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Whipped Green Olive & Lemon Butter with Toast

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

118Calories
1 gProtein
12 gFat
4 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Olive1 large (4g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

  2. Butter + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, olive):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Plumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.