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Poached Egg with Toasted Brioche and Hazelnut-crumbed Asparagus

Take poached egg and asparagus to another level with this fancy breakfast dish of poached egg with asparagus rubbed in hazelnuts, brioche crumbs and a drizzle of maple syrup.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and hazelnut work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Asparagus + hazelnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + white winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Brioche + maple syruptop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. White wine + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Brioche + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together187 recipes

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

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