Name: Sourdough and Sausage Stuffing
Ingredients: 1 loaf sourdough bread, cut or ripped into ½ inch cubes; 6 tbsp butter; 2 cups mushrooms, sliced; 2 yellow onions, roughly chopped; 2 cups celery, roughly chopped; 5 sprigs Fresh Thyme; 3 cups chicken broth; 2 lbs sausage or turkey sausage; Salt and pepper; 1 loaf sourdough bread, cut or ripped into ½ inch cubes; 6 tbsp butter; 2 cups mushrooms, sliced; 2 yellow onions, roughly chopped; 2 cups celery, roughly chopped; 5 sprigs Fresh Thyme; 3 cups chicken broth; 2 lbs sausage or turkey sausage; Salt and pepper

Why it works: Celery and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,193 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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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.

Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,193 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,172 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
Mushroom + thymetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,557 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,171 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, mushroom, onion, thyme, chicken, turkey):

Garlicfits better
Marjoramfits better
Sagefits about as well
Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, mushroom, onion, thyme, chicken, turkey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sourdough	1 slice (36g)	93
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Sourdough and Sausage Stuffing