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Roast Mortimer Forest Venison Loin with Bitter Chocolate, Blackberries and Beetroot

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 65 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and beetroot work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 53 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

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Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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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. Chocolate + beetroottop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Star anise + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Clove + star anisetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Orange + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, milk, orange, clove, star anise, cinnamon):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, milk, orange, clove, star anise, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).