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Chickpea, Fennel, and Citrus Salad

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and fennel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 39 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Makes 4 servings

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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. Chickpea + fenneltop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together39 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 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. Grapefruit + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Grapefruit + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grapefruit

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

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Grapefruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, olive, pepper, chickpea, fennel. 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).