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Roasted Quail with Parsnip Purée, Pomegranate and Parsnip Chips

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsnip and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 63 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roasted Quail with Parsnip Purée, Pomegranate and Parsnip Chips

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

686Calories
36 gProtein
36 gFat
61 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Quailnot 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. Parsnip + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Parsnip + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together350 recipes

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

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, quail, butter, parsnip, shallot, garlic, cream):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, quail, butter, parsnip, shallot, garlic, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.