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Bresse Pigeon Supreme, Pâté En Croute, Braised Red Cabbage and Port Wine Sauce

The pigeon breasts are wrapped up in prosciutto with mushrooms and a chicken cream, and poached before being pan-fried.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 44 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,080 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Cabbage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,080 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Potato + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Pepper + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,303 recipes

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

  5. Cabbage + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together275 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 potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, sugar, malt, vinegar, pepper, milk, butter):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Mustardabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, sugar, malt, vinegar, pepper, milk, butter. 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).