Name: Kohlrabi Dish
Ingredients: 6-7 kohlrabi bulbs,; 2 tablespoons butter or lard,; 1 onion,; 1 cup milk,; 2 tablespoons flour,; 1/2 teaspoon sugar,; 1 teaspoon mixed chopped dill and parsley,; salt

Why it works: Dill and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 669 recipes. Both carry p-mentha-1,3,8-triene, which smells camphor, herbal. The science ↓

Kohlrabi Dish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare like the Celery root dish.
Just add 1/2 teaspoon sugar and replace the celery leaves with dill and parsley.
Category:Romanian Recipes
Category:Romanian Vegetarian

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

919Calories

23 gProtein

34 gFat

130 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Lard	1 tbsp (12.8g)	115
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Kohlrabi	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.

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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.

Dill + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together669 recipes

Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).
Kohlrabi + parsleytop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together21 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
Kohlrabi + dilltop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,843 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kohlrabi, butter, milk, flour, sugar, dill, parsley):

Carrotfits better
Potatofits better
Parsnipfits better
Onionthe original

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