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Roast Duck Breast with Rainbow Chard, Carrots and Wet Polenta

Brighten up the dinner table with this autumnal dish of duck with colourful chard and comforting polenta.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Chard and chervil share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 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, soy (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. Chard + cherviltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Carrot + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together621 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Honey + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, carrot, butter, vinegar, sauce, honey, rosemary):

  1. Grapebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, carrot, butter, vinegar, sauce, honey, rosemary. 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).