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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: Roe and red wine work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Roe + red winetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Apple + red winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Crab + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Crab + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together311 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  5. Apple + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

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

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Grapeabout as good a flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).