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Farro Spaghetti, Beets, Brown Butter, Poppy Seeds

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and poppy seed share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Wheat + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Wheat + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Olive + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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