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Stuffed Boneless Quail with Wild Rice and Sage Stuffing

"Quail are stuffed with a savory mixture of wild rice, onion, celery, sage, parsley and walnuts. This is a dish you'll impress yourself with!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Wild rice and sage work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 23 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. Wild rice + sagetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sage + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together179 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Celery + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together718 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Celery + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  5. Onion + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,506 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quail, wild rice, onion, celery, sage, egg, walnut):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quail, wild rice, onion, celery, sage, egg, walnut. 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).