Name: Grilled Portobello Mushrooms I
Ingredients: portobello mushrooms; olive oil; balsamic vinegar; lots of black pepper and red pepper; garlic; parsley; lemon slices; salad greens; roasted red bell pepper

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms I

Ingredients

Directions

Brush the mushroom with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and lots of black and red pepper (big mushroom, eh?).
Grill it for 2 and a half minutes on each side, and garnish it with a puree of garlic and parsley.
Serve it with lemon slices on a bed of salad greens with a roasted red bell pepper.
If you have leftover stems and broken mushrooms bits, simmer them for ninety minutes in water with a bay leaf and thyme.
Use the dark brew to add or enhance a mushroom flavor in sauce.
Category:Cathy's Recipes
Category:Portobello mushroom Recipes

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

199Calories

4 gProtein

15 gFat

16 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
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Red Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salad	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.

Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,308 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, olive, vinegar, pepper, garlic, parsley):

Lemonthe original
Limefits about as well
Avocadofits less well
Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, olive, vinegar, pepper, garlic, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.