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Honey-Garlic Moose Meatballs

"Bull moose is the best meat to use with this recipe. Have a pro, or yourself grind it like hamburger."

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Honey-Garlic Moose Meatballs

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Honey-Garlic Moose Meatballs

48 meatballs
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

248Calories
3 gProtein
14 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Moosenot in our table0

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

By allrecipes. 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.

  1. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + canola oiltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Onion + canola oiltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Sauce + oniontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Honey + canola oiltop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

Sauce and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,474 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, sauce, honey, canola oil):

  1. Mustardfits about as well
  2. Welsh onionfits about as well
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, sauce, honey, canola oil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.