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British White Beef, Smoked Marrowbone, Baby Cauliflower and Watercress Purée

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 28 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and cauliflower work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 113 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethylphenol, which smells must. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Beef + cauliflowertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

  2. Chive + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Chive + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Parsley + watercresstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sugar, cauliflower, butter, chive, watercress, cream):

  1. Capersbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Tarragonabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sugar, cauliflower, butter, chive, watercress, cream. 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).