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Easy Leek & Pancetta Filo Tarts

Five ingredients and half an hour is all you need to whip up these open bacon and onion pies with crisp pastry shells

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Easy Leek & Pancetta Filo Tarts

Why it works: Leek and butter work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 848 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Easy Leek & Pancetta Filo Tarts

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

224Calories
8 gProtein
17 gFat
11 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Pastrynot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Leek + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together848 recipes

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

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Leek + eggtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

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

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

Swap the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Leekthe original
  4. Potatofits about as well

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