Name: Wood Pigeon with Cauliflower Purée and Game Jus Recipe
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 1 person
Ingredients: 100 veal stock; ml cauliflower, diced; 0.25 raisins; 1 brandy; tbsp mixed seeds; 50 radicchio (adjust amount to your liking); ml garlic clove, finely diced; 1 butter; tsp dash milk; 0.2 garlic clove, crushed; 1 carrot; 1 onion; tbsp stick of celery; 1 whole wood pigeon; 1 sprig thyme; 0.5 sprig rosemary; 0.5 garlic clove, crushed

Why it works: Cauliflower and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. 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.

Cauliflower + garlictop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together124 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Raisin + clovetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,070 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Cauliflower + clovetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together227 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, cauliflower, brandy, garlic, clove, butter, milk):

Lemonfits better
Plumfits better
Figfits better
Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, cauliflower, brandy, garlic, clove, butter, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Rosemary	1 tsp dried (1.2g)	4
Veal	not in our table	0
Brandy	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Radicchio	not in our table	0
Wood	not in our table	0

Wood Pigeon with Cauliflower Purée and Game Jus Recipe