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Quail Marinated in Plum Wine, Barley Miso and Ginger

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Barley and quail share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep1 hr
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Barley + quailtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Sesame + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Ginger + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,402 recipes

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

  4. Sesame + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,999 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Plum + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together196 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shiso

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (plum, barley, sauce, sesame, ginger, garlic, quail):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  4. Shisothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against plum, barley, sauce, sesame, ginger, garlic, quail. 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).