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Couscous & Falafel Salad with Minty Yogurt

This no-cook, mezze-style platter can be whipped up in no time using supermarket or deli ingredients

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Harissa and mint work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 64 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Harissa + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Olive + feta cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Olive + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  5. Pepper + minttop 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 harissa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, feta cheese, pepper, yogurt, mint):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Harissathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, feta cheese, pepper, yogurt, mint. 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).