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Duckling with Orchard Honey, Star Anise, Fennel and Chive Mash and Baby Courgettes

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 34 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and star anise match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 268 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Pepper + star anisetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together268 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Star anise + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-anethole (anise).

  3. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,340 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together447 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together337 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, rosemary, thyme, orange, pepper, honey, olive):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, rosemary, thyme, orange, pepper, honey, olive. 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).