Name: Chargrilled Fillet Steak with Smoked Chilli Butter, Girolle Mushrooms and Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 x 150g/6oz fillet steaks; 1 tbsp olive oil; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 225g/8oz unsalted butter; 2 tbsp lemon juice; 2 tbsp each chopped fresh parsley, rosemary; 2 canned anchovies, drained and finely chopped; 1 tbsp finely chopped shallot; 4 tbsp ready-made smoked barbecue sauce; 2 smoked chipotle; ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp ground white pepper; 60g/2½oz butter; 400g/14oz small potatoes, boiled until tender, peeled and halved lengthways; 1 tbsp chopped fresh flatleaf parsley; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 200g/7oz girolle mushrooms; 200g/7oz purple sprouting broccoli

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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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.

Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,737 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Lemon + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together845 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,590 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the shallot

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

Shallotthe original
Capsicumfits about as well
Carrotfits about as well
Tomatofits about as well

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
White Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Rosemary	1 tsp dried (1.2g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

Chargrilled Fillet Steak with Smoked Chilli Butter, Girolle Mushrooms and Purple Sprouting Broccoli