Why it works: Okra and butter work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 352 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Okra
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the okra and remove the stems.
Boil the okra in salted water for 40 to 50 minutes.
Serve with a butter or cream sauce.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Okra + buttertop 24% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together352 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
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