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Posh Sausage Roll

A delicious mixture of minced pork, spices, apricot and nuts is baked in pastry and served with braised cabbage with apple and tamarind sauce. A meal in itself, or it can be served alongside the turkey as part of the Christmas dinner!

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6-8
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (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. Sage + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

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

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  4. Sage + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,445 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together547 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 pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, pork, sage, parsley, ginger, nutmeg):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  3. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  4. Pistachiothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, pork, sage, parsley, ginger, nutmeg. 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).