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Spectacular Marsala Glazed Carrots with Hazelnuts

"This incredible carrot dish is like no other you've ever tasted! Elegant for any holiday or special occasion, yet easy enough for any day of the week. Please DO NOT omit the Marsala wine as it makes this dish taste spectacular."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Hazelnut and carrot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Hazelnut + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,517 recipes

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

  3. Hazelnut + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together794 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Shallot + winetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together761 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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 (hazelnut, carrot, butter, wine, sugar):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  3. Beetrootbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against hazelnut, carrot, butter, wine, sugar. 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).