Why it works: Kale and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 226 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Sea Kale, Stewed
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the sea kale and tie it in bundles.
Boil it in salted water for 15 minutes, then drain.
Place it in a saucepan with enough brown gravy to cover it.
Stew gently until tender.
Transfer to a hot dish, stir in a little lemon juice into the sauce, and pour it over the sea kale.
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 + lemontop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together226 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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