Name: Asparagus Mimosa Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 500 Asparagus, woody ends snapped off and discarded; g Eggs; 4 Generous sized knob of salted butter for cooking; 1 Salted butter mixed with crushed garlic; 125 Edible flowers of your choice, like violas or a handful of chopped chives; g Good pinch of sea salt and freshly ground white pepper

Why it works: Garlic and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,149 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Asparagus Mimosa Recipe

4 people

Prep15 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

500 Asparagus, woody ends snapped off and discarded
g Eggs
4 Generous sized knob of salted butter for cooking
1 Salted butter mixed with crushed garlic
125 Edible flowers of your choice, like violas or a handful of chopped chives
g Good pinch of sea salt and freshly ground white pepper

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

218Calories

10 gProtein

17 gFat

8 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Asparagus	6 spears (90g)	27
White Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Chives	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Flower	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By lovefood. 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.

Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,149 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Asparagus + chivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Asparagus + garlictop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together606 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,097 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Asparagus + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,338 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (asparagus, egg, butter, garlic, chive):

Capersfits better
Tarragonfits better
Parsleyfits better
White pepperthe original

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

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