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Marmalade-Glazed Roast Duck Recipe

The whole ducks in this recipe are halved, seared, and roasted with an easy glaze of orange marmalade, orange juice, and soy sauce.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Marmalade-Glazed Roast Duck Recipe

Why it works: Pepper and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,402 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Marmalade-Glazed Roast Duck Recipe

4 servings
Cook1 hr 55 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

414Calories
21 gProtein
28 gFat
18 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By chow. 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. Pepper + orangetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Pepper + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Orange + saucetop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Pepper and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,303 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.