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Venison on a Herb Purée with Buttered Spring Greens, Parsnip Purée and a Red Wine and Blueberry Sauce and Shaved Hazelnuts

Rich venison with fresh herbs, buttered greens and uncutous parsnip purée, covered with red wine and blueberry sauce.

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Why it works: Parsnip and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Parsnip + hazelnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Fennel + parsniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Fennel + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, olive, lemon, butter, shallot, garlic, red wine):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, olive, lemon, butter, shallot, garlic, red wine. 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).