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Bloody Mary Bites

"Bite size tomatoes that taste like a bloody Mary in every bite!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Bloody Mary Bites

Why it works: Sauce and vodka share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Bloody Mary Bites

16 servings
Prep3 min
Cook12 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

133Calories
4 gProtein
1 gFat
33 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0
Vodkanot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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.

  1. Sauce + vodkatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Cherry tomato + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: butanol (wine).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, sauce, vodka, lemon, celery):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sauce, vodka, lemon, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.