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Wild Boar Fillet with Beetroot and Cumin Seeds

Try pairing wild boar with heritage beetroot wedges fried in cumin.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 172 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Wild Boar Fillet with Beetroot and Cumin Seeds

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

117Calories
1 gProtein
12 gFat
2 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Beetrootnot in our table0
Rapeseed 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. Beetroot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beetroot + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cumin + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + cumintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Pepper + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the cumin

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Cuminthe original

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