Name: Persian Style Baked Herb Omelet Recipe
Yield: 6-8
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp cold pressed extra virgin olive oil; 2 large red onions chopped and caramelized; 3 cups fresh organic baby spinach washed and chopped; 8 large organic eggs; 1/4 cup soy milk, hemp milk or almond milk; 4 cloves garlic finely chopped; 8 spring onions/scallions finely chopped; 2 handfuls of cilantro/coriander finely chopped; 2 handfuls of continental parsley finely chopped; 1 handful fresh chives finely chopped; 1 fresh dill sprig chopped; 4 fresh mint sprigs chopped; 1/2 cup pine nuts; 1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt; Freshly ground pepper

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,435 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,474 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, spinach, egg, soy milk, garlic, coriander):

Cuminfits better
Turmericfits better
Parsleyfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, spinach, egg, soy milk, garlic, coriander. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pine Nut	1 oz (28g)	191
Soy Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Red Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Almond Milk	1 cup (240ml) unsweetened	30
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Chives	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Coriander	not in our table	0
Peppermint	not in our table	0

Persian Style Baked Herb Omelet Recipe