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Liver Casserole

A tasty and hearty dinner done on the cheap!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and liver are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,421 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Onion + livertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,421 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Beans + kidney beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Onion + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

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

  5. Beans + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,441 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, butter, liver, beans, carrot, celery, beef):

  1. Lima beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Peasabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Kidney beansthe original
  4. Sesameabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, butter, liver, beans, carrot, celery, beef. 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).