Name: Brussels Sprouts
Ingredients: 1 pound Brussels sprouts; Salt; 1 cup Thin White Sauce

Why it works: Brussels sprouts and sauce work together. They rank in the top 45% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. The science ↓

Brussels Sprouts

Ingredients

1 pound Brussels sprouts
Salt
1 cup Thin White Sauce

Directions

Prepare

Wash and remove wilted leaves from the Brussels sprouts.
Soak in cold water for 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Cook and serve

Drain and cover with boiling salted water.
Cook for 20 minutes or until tender.
Drain and re-heat in 1 cup of Thin White Sauce.

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.

Brussels sprouts + saucetop 45% of all pairs

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Cooked together5 recipes

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What each ingredient does

Brussels sprouts: Form the main body of the dish and become tender when boiled.
Thin white sauce: Adds moisture and a creamy coating when the sprouts are re-heated in it.

“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.