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Partridge with Cobnut Crust and Potted Game

This autumnal dish of confit of partridge and game is served with homemade oatcakes and a blackberry herb salad.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,633 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Partridge with Cobnut Crust and Potted Game

Serves 6
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1017Calories
31 gProtein
37 gFat
140 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blackberry1 cup (144g)62
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Goosenot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + chivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Flour + chivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pepper + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Oats + olivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together613 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, flour, pepper, olive, butter):

  1. Spinachfits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Chivethe original
  4. Potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, flour, pepper, olive, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.