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Roast Rack of Venison, Gin and Tonic Jelly, Smoked Bacon, Spinach, Marinated Beets, Caramelised Pineapple, Turnips, Port and Lentil Jus

Show off your chef skills with this dish of roast rack of venison served with an array of vegetables and small circles of gin and tonic jelly.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 42 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 320 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Turnip + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  3. Lentils + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  4. Thyme + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together442 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Orange + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (gin, agar, thyme, garlic, venison, lentils, chicken):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against gin, agar, thyme, garlic, venison, lentils, chicken. 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).