Why it works: Sauce and tarragon work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 566 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Tarragon Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Simmer the Clear Brown Sauce with the small sprays of green tarragon for 5 minutes.
Remove the sprays and shred the fresh tarragon leaves.
Add the shredded tarragon to the sauce and serve.
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 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.
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Sauce + tarragontop 17% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together566 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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What each ingredient does
- Clear brown sauce
- Forms the body and savoury base of the sauce.
- Green tarragon sprays
- Infuse the sauce with their aroma during simmering.
- Fresh tarragon leaves
- Add a fresh, bright herb aroma just before serving.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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