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Roe Buck Saddle, Greens, Barley, Jelly Ear

Venison coated with powdered dandelion root and a mix of powdered mushrooms, served with a creamy onion purée and pearl barley.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 28 ingredients
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Why it works: Crab and butter work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 812 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Roe Buck Saddle, Greens, Barley, Jelly Ear

Serves 4
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1165Calories
93 gProtein
39 gFat
109 gCarbs

Counts 17 of 21 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 17 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Barley1 cup cooked (157g)193
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Roenot in our table0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Dandelionnot in our table0
Star Anisenot 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. Crab + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pepper + dandeliontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Dandelion + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Crab + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together311 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (crab, sugar, roe, pepper, butter, dandelion, onion):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against crab, sugar, roe, pepper, butter, dandelion, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.