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Wheat-fed Guinea Fowl, Brioche Crumbs, Gooseberries, Asparagus, St George Mushrooms and Wild Sorrel

This cheffy, spring-y recipe is a wild, seasonal food lover’s delight. Multiply the quantities by the number of guests for a dinner party to impress.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Sorrel and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 122 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Sorrel + asparagustop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Wheat + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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