Name: Steak a LA Parisienne
Ingredients: 1 steak; ½ cup finely minced parsley; ⅓ cup butter; fried potatoes (for serving)

Why it works: Parsley and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28,563 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Steak a LA Parisienne

Ingredients

1 steak
½ cup finely minced parsley
⅓ cup butter
fried potatoes (for serving)

Directions

Mix parsley and butter together.
Place the mixture on the steak.
Serve the steak when the butter has melted.
Accompany with fried potatoes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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 + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together28,563 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Butter + fried potatotop 40% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together0 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Parsley + fried potatotop 77% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together0 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).