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Vegetarian Sausages Recipe

Great vegetarian sausages with a watercress sauce by Nicola Graimes.

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Why it works: Leek and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 360 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep35 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Leek + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together360 recipes

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

  2. Thyme + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 recipes

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

  3. Cheddar cheese + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together133 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cheddar cheese + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,963 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together913 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheddar cheese, apple, thyme, mustard, milk, egg, olive):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheddar cheese, apple, thyme, mustard, milk, egg, olive. 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).