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Placenta Stew

A stew of human placenta with potatoes, carrots, celery, zucchini, tomato, onion, parsley, and spices.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Placenta Stew

Time1 hour

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roll the placenta in a mix of the flour, salt, paprika, clove, pepper, and 6-8 coriander seeds.

  2. Sauté the placenta in 2 tablespoons oil.

Make the stew

  1. Add the vegetables and about 1 litre of water.

  2. Allow the mixture to boil.

  3. Let it simmer for an hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

862Calories
22 gProtein
16 gFat
161 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Cloves1 tsp ground (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot 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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  5. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh human placenta
Forms the main body of the stew and is the protein that gives it substance.
Flour
Coats the placenta and helps thicken the stew liquid as it cooks.
Potato
Adds starch that softens during simmering and helps thicken the broth.
Onion
Adds savoury sweetness and aroma as it softens in the stew.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, parsley, carrot, celery, tomato, onion, flour):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, parsley, carrot, celery, tomato, onion, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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