Why it works: Rabbit and sauce work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 330 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Filets De Lapereaux Garnis De Quenelles
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and trim 12 rabbit fillets.
Arrange the fillets in a sauté pan, shaping them similarly to the rabbit fillets with truffle puree.
Cook the fillets until done.
Place the fillets around a croustade.
Garnish with rabbit quenelles.
Lightly sauce the quenelles with reduced Espagnole sauce made with rabbit stock.
Lightly sauce the fillets.
Serve the remaining sauce on the side.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Rabbit + saucetop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together330 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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