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Beef Ribs with Barbecue Sauce, Baked Potato and Chive Soured Cream

Try James' gently spicy, sticky ribs for the authentic taste of the deep-south. You could finish the ribs off on a barbecue instead of the oven if you prefer.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and sugar work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 467 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chive + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together467 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Fennel + star anisetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-anethole (anise).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the star anise

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, garlic, fennel, potato, pepper, cream):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. Star anisethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, garlic, fennel, potato, pepper, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).