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Brussels with Hustle

Who wants to spend ages prepping sprouts when there's so much else going on? Not me! This kind of thing is exactly the reason I fell in love with my food processor. I've come up with this super quick recipe where you just rattle the sprouts straight through the processor and into a pan with some gorgeous flavours to pimp them right up. Done.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,388 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

4-6

Ingredients

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

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By jamieoliver. 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. Sage + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  4. Sage + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,025 recipes

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

  5. Olive + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, butter, pepper, sauce, garlic):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, butter, pepper, sauce, garlic. 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).