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Spring Salad with Goats' Milk Purée, Pickled Asparagus and Quails’ Eggs

Fresh goats' milk coupled with asparagus, gives a resonant taste of British summer to this Great British Menu contender.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 35 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and quail share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Asparagus + quailtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Beetroot + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beetroot + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Beetroot + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 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 carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, watercress, cream, milk, agar, cheese, celery):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, watercress, cream, milk, agar, cheese, celery. 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).