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This smart cocktail and simple canapés will get the party started with maximum fun and minimum fuss

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Prosciutto and salmon work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, wheat, fish, shellfish (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. Prosciutto + salmontop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16 recipes

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

  2. Cucumber + salmontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together509 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Chicken + cranberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Cucumber + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,036 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Salmon + chickentop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together531 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (prosciutto, cucumber, salmon, chicken):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against prosciutto, cucumber, salmon, chicken. 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).