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Glazed Figs with Almonds and Thyme

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 18 hors d'oeuvres

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. White wine + figtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Honey + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Fig + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together518 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. White wine + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,495 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. White wine + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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