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Duck a L’orange with Smoked Garlic Mash, Cardamom-glazed Carrots and Creamed Chard

Delicious and so easy: duck cooked in fresh orange juice and zest. Easy to see why this dish is such a classic.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Cardamom and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 155 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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. Cardamom + carrottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together155 recipes

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

  2. Cardamom + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Garlic + chardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,105 recipes

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

  5. Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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