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Butter-Braised Spring Onions with Lots of Chives

Onion flavor is layered in this dish: The greens have a brightness to balance the braised spring onions bulbs' sweetness, the cooking liquid becomes a buttery sauce, and lots of fresh chives deliver a high note to finish.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Butter-Braised Spring Onions with Lots of Chives

Why it works: Onion and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,907 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Butter-Braised Spring Onions with Lots of Chives

4 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

147Calories
1 gProtein
12 gFat
10 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
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.

By bonappetit. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, butter):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Chivethe original
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Okrafits less well

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