Why it works: Cauliflower and sauce work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 463 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Cauliflower, with Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Remove the leaves and cut the stem close to the cauliflower.
Soak the cauliflower in cold water for 30 minutes.
Tie the cauliflower in coarse bobbinet lace or mosquito net.
Cook and serve
Cook in boiling water with a pinch of coarse sea salt until tender.
Place the cauliflower flower side up in a hot dish and pour sauce over it.
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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Cauliflower + saucetop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together463 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Cauliflower
- Is the main vegetable and cooks until tender in boiling salted water.
“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.
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