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Sauteed Mushrooms with Marsala Wine & Thyme

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Sauteed Mushrooms with Marsala Wine & Thyme

Why it works: Shallot and shiitake share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Sauteed Mushrooms with Marsala Wine & Thyme

Serves 4 as a side dish.

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

210Calories
5 gProtein
14 gFat
14 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
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 cookincanuck. 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. Shallot + shiitaketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Shiitake + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  5. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, mushroom, shiitake, wine, thyme, pepper):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, mushroom, shiitake, wine, thyme, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.