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Honey-Poppy Seed Cornish Hens

"This is a delicious dish that serves well with curried vegetables."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Poppy seed and ginger work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 79 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

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4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Poppy seed + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Pepper + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,799 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Honey + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Pepper + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Honey + poppy seedtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, honey, poppy seed, ginger):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, honey, poppy seed, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).