Some basic rules: 1) If it has more than 4 ingredients, you probably shouldn't eat it. 2) If any of the ingredients are hard to read or pronounce because they're long and complicated and look like they belong on a chemistry test, you probably shouldn't eat it. 3) If your grandmother would have difficulty recognizing it as food, you probably shouldn't eat it.
The lamb I made last night had more than 4 ingredients:
Lamb Olive oil Salt Pepper Paprika Oregano Thyme Rosemary.
The pita bread I made yesterday had more than four ingredients:
Flour Sugar Water Salt Yeast.
The tzatziki I made had more than 4 ingredients.
Whole fat greek yogurt Garlic Salt Cucumber Lemon juice Dill Mint
It was delicious, by the way.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic
So you had seasoned lamb, bread, and yogurt with cucumber. Good for you. (I don't recommend the sugar though)
Close. I made gyros from scratch.
My point is that basic recipes commonly have more than four ingredients in them. It's not the number of ingredients in a dish that we should worry about. It's what those ingredients are. I completely agree with the second and third point.
The sugar fed the yeast in the pita bread, by the way.
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