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Wild Rabbit with Ham Hock, Carrots, Asparagus and Morels

Equipment: For this recipe you will need a stove top smoker

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 67 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 570 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Carrot + asparagustop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together570 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Carrot + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Leek + asparagustop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, rabbit, carrot, onion, celery, garlic, leek):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, rabbit, carrot, onion, celery, garlic, leek. 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).