Why it works: Broccoli and sauce work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and 652 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Brocoli with Hollandaise Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Trim and boil the broccoli until tender.
Drain the broccoli on a napkin.
Pour Hollandaise sauce over the broccoli.
Serve hot.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Broccoli + saucetop 22% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together652 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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