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Sage and Onion Tear and Share Bread

Tear and share these delicious sage and onion bread rolls - a perfect accompaniment to a warming soup.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Sage and Onion Tear and Share Bread

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Sage and Onion Tear and Share Bread

Makes 8 rolls
Prep2 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

811Calories
23 gProtein
21 gFat
132 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Sunflower + sagetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Garlic + sagetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,025 recipes

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

  5. Sunflower + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, flour, sugar, butter, sunflower, onion, garlic):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, flour, sugar, butter, sunflower, onion, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.