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Wild Mushrooms À LA Crème Recipe

This rich, creamy sauce is so versatile: Top baked potatoes or crostini with it. Or turn it into a pasta sauce or a filling in omelets or crêpes.Game plan: For...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Wild Mushrooms À LA Crème Recipe

Why it works: Chanterelle 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 20 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Wild Mushrooms À LA Crème Recipe

8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

232Calories
5 gProtein
17 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Chanterellenot in our table0
Porcininot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chanterelle + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the chive

The recipe marks chive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, pepper, chanterelle, lemon, cream, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Chivethe original
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Leekfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, pepper, chanterelle, lemon, cream, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.