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Canary Mary

Pep up a bloody Mary recipe with a burst of fresh ginger.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Canary Mary

Why it works: Vodka and sauce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Canary Mary

Serves 1
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

132Calories
4 gProtein
1 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
White Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Vodkanot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Vodka + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,113 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Ginger + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Celery + gingertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together988 recipes

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

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vodka, tomato, celery, ginger, sauce, cherry):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vodka, tomato, celery, ginger, sauce, cherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.