Name: Tartelettes a LA Jardiniere
Ingredients: young carrots, cut into small squares; cooked green peas; green asparagus tips, cut small; butter; coarse sea salt; sugar; tartelette crusts; cauliflower floweret, heated in salted water; Dutch sauce

Why it works: Peas and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 807 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tartelettes a LA Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the young carrots in lightly salted water until tender, then drain.
Add the same amount of cooked green peas and small-cut green asparagus tips.
Toss the vegetables in butter and season with coarse sea salt and a pinch of sugar.
Fill heated tartelette crusts with the vegetable mixture.
Place a heated cauliflower floweret in the center of each tart.
Dip the cauliflower in Dutch sauce or cover the vegetables with Dutch sauce.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Peas + asparagustop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Asparagus + cauliflowertop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together163 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Peas + cauliflowertop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together313 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Carrot + peastop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,994 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Carrot + asparagustop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together570 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, asparagus, butter, sugar, cauliflower, sauce):

Cucumberbetter flavor fit
Broccolibetter flavor fit
Potatobetter flavor fit
Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, asparagus, butter, sugar, cauliflower, sauce. 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).