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Venison with Blackberry Wine Sauce

"A yummy way to spice up venison loin or steaks. Good with any red meat."

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Venison with Blackberry Wine Sauce

Why it works: Shallot and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,000 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Venison with Blackberry Wine Sauce

4 steaks
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

614Calories
59 gProtein
30 gFat
19 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Venison100g cooked158
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blackberry1 cup (144g)62
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

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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. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  3. Blackberry + red winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  5. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

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

Swap the blackberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shallot, garlic, red wine, beef, butter, pepper, venison):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Blackberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shallot, garlic, red wine, beef, butter, pepper, venison. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.