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Aceite de oliva

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0.0sour
0.0sweet
1.0savoury
3.0bitter
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9 of these 129 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

129 pairings for Aceite de oliva.

Acid plus fat is a sauce with no third ingredient. Whisk it and stop there.

Cidra

classic

Sliced raw, salted, oiled. Calabria eats the pith as a salad and means it.

Rehydration is the whole point; the oil it sits in becomes the better product.

Brocolini

classic

Oiled, salted, blistered. The char is the dish and the oil carries it.

Kale

classic

Massage it in. Fat breaks the wax so salt can reach the leaf.

Col negra

classic

Raw, at the end, in an insulting quantity. Fat is the seasoning.

Rúcula

classic

Peppery oil on a peppery leaf. Same burn, different length.

Lechuga

classic

Oil first, acid second. Wet leaves refuse to take either.

Alcachofa

classic

Cynarin makes everything after it taste sweet. Bitter oil is immune.

Cardo

classic

The dip is mostly fat, because the stalk is mostly bitterness.

Smoking hot oil, sixty seconds, blisters not colour.

Palmito

classic

Drained, the stem is dry and squeaky. Oil is what turns a jar of it into a salad.

Capsaicin will not dissolve in water. Without fat the heat mostly stays in the flake.

Dukkah

classic

Bread into oil, oil into nuts. That is the entire preparation and it holds.

Green peppery oil against acorn fat, the two Iberian fats in one bite.

Bresaola

classic

Bresaola has no fat of its own. The oil is the missing half, not a garnish.

Sardina

classic

The tin is oil. The grill is oil. Nobody has improved on it.

Merluza

classic

The sauce is an emulsion of oil and fish juice. No butter, no flour.

Róbalo

classic

Lean fish, hot grill. The oil is what stops it welding to the bars.

Dorada

classic

Grilled whole, dressed hot, so the oil goes into the flakes.

Bottarga

classic

The wax needs fat to dissolve into. Raw oil is the only vehicle.

Burrata

classic

Green peppery polyphenols against soft sweet fat, salt on top.

Queso feta

classic

Brine without fat reads as pure salt and nothing else.

Farro

classic

Chewy grain, green oil, salt. Tuscany has resisted improving it.

The bean is a sponge with no fat. Raw oil poured over is the actual dish.

Baked in it, not with it. The bean drinks half and the rest becomes sauce.

Portobello

classic

The cap is a sponge. Oil it, do not marinate it, or it drowns.

Porcini

classic

Grill the caps whole in oil; butter burns before the flesh gives up water.

Same fruit, pressed instead of cured. The oil rehydrates what curing took.

The oxidised nuttiness matches peppery oil better than any other acid.

The colour and the flavour are fat-soluble. Untoasted, it tastes of tin.

Bread, oil, flakes. Three ingredients and one of them is a texture.

Uva

common

Peppery polyphenols supply the bitterness a table grape has bred out of itself.

Green pepperiness meets tannin; the oil is the dressing and the seasoning both.

The peel is thin enough to eat, so slice it whole into the oil, pith and all.

Sandía

common

Fat gives a fruit with none something to cling to; it stops the plate reading thin.

Peppery green oil is the bitterness this beet does not supply itself.

Hinojo

common

Peppery oil against sweet anise; raw fennel has no fat of its own to carry it.

Peppery fat coats a vegetable that is almost entirely water and crunch.

Romanesco

common

Peppery green oil matches the raw grassiness a white head does not have.

Brócoli

common

Fat coats the florets so the sulfur stops arriving all at once.

Acelga

common

The stems poach in it and turn from squeaky to silky.

Cut face down in hot oil. The sugars caramelise, the core stays raw.

Radicchio

common

Bitter compounds are fat-soluble. Oil spreads them thinner.

Achicoria

common

The bitter compounds dissolve into it and spread out thinner.

Fat is the only solvent that thins the bitter without removing it.

Verdolaga

common

Fat coats the mucilage so the texture stops announcing itself.

Griddled in it, the spear browns before the inside overcooks.

Cebolla

common

Slower browning than butter, so the sugars have longer to develop.

Blitzed into oil it keeps its colour for a week. Raw, it does not.

Squeeze the water out, put fat back in. That is the whole recipe.

Berenjena

common

It drinks oil like it is owed. Salt it first or it drinks twice as much.

Store the peeled strips under oil; they get better for a week.

They arrive dry from the tin. Oil is what makes them silky again.

Raw and sliced lengthways, they need fat more than they need heat.

Haba

common

Mealy flesh has no fat; the oil is what makes it a puree.

Peppery oil doubles the resin instead of trying to soften it.

Tomillo

common

Thymol is fat-soluble and heat-stable, so the oil becomes the seasoning.

Romero

common

Resin dissolves in oil and stays put through 200°C. That is the whole method.

Orégano

common

Dried carvacrol will not dissolve in water. Bloom it in the oil first.

Oleocanthal burns the throat, piperine the tongue. Good oil already tastes half-ground.

Half-salted and half-oiled already; the fat pulls the colour straight out.

Fat-soluble smoke phenols; the oil turns orange and carries everything.

Anethole is fat-soluble and needs warm oil, not water, to come out.

Zumaque

common

Peppery fat plus dry acid; the two things a Levantine plate finishes with.

Already oily, so the fat pulls the purple straight out and darkens the plate.

Atún

common

Lean muscle, no marbling. The oil is the fat it is missing.

Rape

common

It roasts rather than poaches, so it wants oil not butter.

Sepia

common

Ink emulsifies into oil. That black slick is the entire sauce.

Halloumi

common

Grill it dry and dress it after. Oil in the pan only burns.

Peppery fat rounds the chalk before you ever reach for cream.

Peppery green oil over aged curd. The bitterness gives the fat somewhere to go.

Pecorino

common

Peppery oil rounds the salt spike and the cheese stops shouting.

A wet curd sheds water onto the plate. Oil turns that puddle into a dressing instead of a leak.

Pasta

common

Oil and pasta water only bind if the starch is there to broker it.

Bulgur

common

Cracked wheat drinks oil like a sponge and stops being dusty.

Quinoa

common

The seed is nearly fat-free and tastes it. Dress it while still warm.

In the dough it softens the crumb; under it, the base fries instead of baking.

Peppery raw oil is the acid substitute; this bean is too sweet without it.

Piñón

common

The nut's resin dissolves into the oil; the phenol bite stops it going flat. Toast dry, oil after.

Shared green hexenal notes — the oil amplifies rather than dilutes the seed.

The brine is the acid and the bud is the salt. Nothing else needed.

Maracuyá

uncommon

Peppery green fat and screaming acid: the dressing writes itself, no vinegar needed.

Bergamota

uncommon

Calabria dresses raw fish with the zest and good oil. Nothing else in the bowl.

Raw as a salad, the peppery oil is the only counterweight needed.

Lisa

uncommon

The roe, pressed and cured, is eaten shaved over the oil the way bottarga is everywhere else.

Two bitternesses, one peppery and one tannic, with flaky salt between them.

Cacao

uncommon

Peppery green fat replaces butter and the cocoa suddenly tastes savoury.

Peppery bitterness through cocoa butter, with salt as the bridge between them.

Peppery bitterness is what the bar has never had. Whisk it in warm with salt.

Shake them and you have a vinaigrette that is already salted and cultured.

Almendra

uncommon

The green-almond note is already in the oil. The nut makes it louder.

Azahar

uncommon

Peppery oil grounds the perfume; the fat also stops it evaporating in the oven.

Wakame

rare

Peppery polyphenols over silky marine. Different sea, same instinct.

Sicilian: pistachio ground into oil is a sauce, not a garnish. No cream needed.

Fresa

rare

Both run on green-leaf aldehydes. Add black pepper and skip the cream.

Flor yeast and green oil share an almond note, with salt sitting between.

Peppery polyphenols supply bitterness; suddenly this reads as a salad, not a fruit.

A grassy peppery oil turns a stocking fruit into a starter. Salt it too.

Two green bitternesses, one Mediterranean, one Japanese. Neither blinks.

Peppery oil coats, then the beads break through it. Dressing without emulsifying.

Grassy oil and flaky salt over clotted cream. It eats as a dessert.

Roe is fat with no backbone. Bitter oil hands it one.

Matcha

wild

Two green bitters, one grassy and one peppery. Neither one yields.

Fat dissolves bergamot's peel oil; the phenol bite holds it up. Bake it into the cake, not the cup.

Set the oil into strands and serve it as noodles. elBulli did it first.