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Mustard and Whiskey Sauce

"A very nice sauce that goes well with lamb and roasted potatoes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 842 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

1 cup
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped shallot and cook, stirring, until soft and translucent, about 2 minutes.

  3. Remove the pan from the heat, then pour in the whiskey. Return to medium heat and simmer until reduced by about half, about 1 minute.

  4. Add the chicken stock and simmer over medium heat until reduced by about half, about 2 minutes.

  5. Reduce the heat to low, then whisk in the coarse grained mustard until smooth and heated through, about 30 seconds.

  6. Serve warm spooned over the dish.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Shallot + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Chicken + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  3. Butter + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,869 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Shallot + chickentop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + shallottop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, chicken, mustard):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Onionbetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, chicken, mustard. 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).