Farro with Wild Mushrooms and Herbs

Name: Farro with Wild Mushrooms and Herbs
Yield: Makes 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups semi-pearled farro; Kosher salt; 2 tablespoons (or more) olive oil; 4 cups (about 8 ounces) assorted fresh mushrooms (such as chanterelle, porcini, lobster, maitake, and crimini), cut into 1" pieces; Freshly ground black pepper; 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth; 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2" cubes; 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients

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Why it works: Chanterelle and maitake share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Farro with Wild Mushrooms and Herbs

Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

682Calories

64 gProtein

30 gFat

39 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Farro	1/2 cup cooked (100g)	170
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Mushrooms	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Chives	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Chanterelle	not in our table	0
Porcini	not in our table	0
Maitake	not in our table	0

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

By epicurious. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Chanterelle + maitaketop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,172 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
Olive + chanterelletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together91 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Mushroom + chanterelletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together115 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,571 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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