Why it works: Endive and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 214 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Endive with Bacon
Ingredients
Directions
Make a bed of endive on a serving plate.
Finely slice the onion and place it over the endive.
Cut the bacon into small dice and fry it slowly in a frying pan until cooked.
Scatter the cooked bacon over the onion and endive before serving.
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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Endive + oniontop 11% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together214 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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