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Melon, Cherry Bocconcini & Prosciutto Salad Recipe Recipe

This is such a beautiful light summer salad with such subtle and fresh flavours.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and prosciutto work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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By chow. 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. Cherry + prosciuttotop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29 recipes

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

  2. Mint + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  4. Cherry + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,792 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Mint + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,372 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cherry, prosciutto, lemon, olive, pepper):

  1. Basilbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, prosciutto, lemon, olive, pepper. 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).