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Oysters with a Garlic-Tarragon Crust

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and tarragon work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 747 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Garlic + tarragontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together747 recipes

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

  2. Tarragon + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together334 recipes

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

  3. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  4. Celery + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Tarragon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,691 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, tarragon, bread, butter, pepper, oyster):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Marjoramabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, tarragon, bread, butter, pepper, oyster. 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).