Name: Bourbon Maple Glazed Carrots
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 cup Good-quality Bourbon Or Whiskey; ½ cups Unsalted Butter; ¼ cups Maple Syrup; ¼ cups Brown Sugar; 2 teaspoons Salt And Black Pepper; 1-½ pound Chopped Dill, Plus More For Garnish

Why it works: Pepper and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,630 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Bourbon Maple Glazed Carrots

Serves 8

Prep10 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

1 cup Good-quality Bourbon Or Whiskey
½ cups Unsalted Butter
¼ cups Maple Syrup
¼ cups Brown Sugar
2 teaspoons Salt And Black Pepper
1-½ pound Chopped Dill, Plus More For Garnish

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

213Calories

1 gProtein

12 gFat

28 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Maple Syrup	1 tbsp (20ml)	52
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Whiskey	not in our table	0

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

By tastykitchen. 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.

Pepper + dilltop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,630 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Maple syrup + sugartop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,252 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Butter + maple syruptop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,084 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85,593 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, maple syrup, sugar, pepper):

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegfits better
Gingerfits better
Dillthe original

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

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