Name: Artichokes Farci
Ingredients: artichokes; forcemeat; parsley; chives; mushrooms; stock; oil; fine herbs; lemon juice

Why it works: Artichoke and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Artichokes Farci

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the artichokes by boiling them in water for 10 minutes.
Remove the choke from the artichokes and fill the cavity with forcemeat, parsley, chives, and finely chopped mushrooms.
Place the stuffed artichokes in a stewpan with heat from above and below.
Add a little stock to moisten the artichokes and let them stew slowly.
Serve with a sauce made of oil, chopped fine herbs, and lemon juice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Explore the science

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.

Artichoke + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together59 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Artichoke + lemontop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together636 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,150 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Artichoke + parsleytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together524 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, parsley, chive, mushroom):

Lemonthe original
Avocadofits about as well
Limefits about as well
Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, parsley, chive, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.