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Sausage and Mushroom Cassoulet

This tasty warming dish can also be cooked in the oven for 1 hour at the same temperature.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Sausage and Mushroom Cassoulet

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1103Calories
40 gProtein
43 gFat
141 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sausage100g cooked301
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cannellini Beannot in our table0
Beannot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Rosemary + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, rosemary, thyme, olive, onion, garlic, beans):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, rosemary, thyme, olive, onion, garlic, beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.