Name: Mushroom Crepe Gratin Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 250 Plain flour, sifted - for the crepes; g Whole milk - for the crepes; 300 Eggs - for the crepes; ml Melted unsalted butter - for the crepes; 2 Vegetable oil - for the crepes; 2 Parmesan cheese, grated - for the crepes; tbsp Unsalted butter - for the filling; 2 Banana shallots, peeled and finely chopped- for the filling; tbsp Garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped- for the filling; 50 Button mushrooms, finely chopped- for the filling; g Finely chopped thyme leaves- for the filling; 75 Finely chopped flat-leaf parsley- for the filling; g Whole milk - for the sauce; 2 Bay leaf - for the sauce; 1 Black peppercorns - for the sauce; 1 Onion, peeled - for the sauce; kg Unsalted butter - for the sauce; 2 Plain flour, sifted - for the sauce; tsp Pinch of salt - for the sauce; 2 Cayenne pepper - for the sauce; tsp Freshly grated nutmeg - for the sauce; 400 Baby spinach leaves - for the spinach; ml Extra virgin olive oil- for the spinach

Why it works: Shallot and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,000 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. 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.

Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,000 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Flour + shallottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,081 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,163 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,470 recipes

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

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, milk, egg, butter, parmesan cheese, banana, shallot):

Capersfits better
Nutmegfits better
Cinnamonfits better
Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk, egg, butter, parmesan cheese, banana, shallot. 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Parmesan Cheese	1 oz (28g)	110
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

Mushroom Crepe Gratin Recipe