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Scrambled Free-range Cornish Duck Eggs with Smoked Eel

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Scrambled Free-range Cornish Duck Eggs with Smoked Eel

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

504Calories
21 gProtein
45 gFat
3 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Eelnot 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. Chive + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + spinachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Pepper + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, butter, cream, spinach):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Chivethe original
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter, cream, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.