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Goosnargh Duck Breast, Puffed Rice and Pumkin Seeds, Rhubarb, Yoghurt and Watercress

Succulent duck and sharp rhubarb combine the finest ingredients from Lancashire and Yorkshire.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and rhubarb work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Thyme + rhubarbtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Red wine + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together749 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Pine + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together93 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Chicken + thymetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,173 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, sauce, maple syrup, chicken, corn, sugar, pine):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, sauce, maple syrup, chicken, corn, sugar, pine. 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).