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Parsley Croutons Recipe

Croutons provide a nice crunch to anything they garnish, and they're a great way to get rid of leftover bread. These were made to top our Apple-Chestnut Soup...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,668 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

3 cups

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Parsley + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Bread + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Butter + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Parsley + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together28,543 recipes

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

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