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Roasted Beetroot Sauce

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 139 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roasted Beetroot Sauce

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

454Calories
32 gProtein
31 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Beetrootnot 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. Beetroot + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,608 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, garlic, butter, shallot, thyme, chicken, white wine):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, garlic, butter, shallot, thyme, chicken, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.