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Duck Rillettes with Duck Breast, Pickled Mushrooms and Parsnip and Apple Purée

This French coarse pâté would be fab with cornichons and toast, or serve it as part of this fancy dish.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 38 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and parsnip work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 110 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Mushroom + parsniptop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together110 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  2. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Beef + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + parsniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together270 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (thyme, pepper, red wine, beef, butter, olive, mushroom):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Marjoramabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Basilabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against thyme, pepper, red wine, beef, butter, olive, mushroom. 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).