Why it works: Kale and butter work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 247 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Sea Kale
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare sea kale by washing it thoroughly.
Cook the sea kale in boiling water until tender.
Serve the cooked sea kale on toast.
Drizzle melted butter over the sea kale before serving.
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.
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Kale + buttertop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together247 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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