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Grated Beetroot with Butter

A great side dish which has intense flavour and class.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 406 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Grated Beetroot with Butter

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

109Calories
0 gProtein
12 gFat
1 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
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Beetrootnot 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. Garlic + beetroottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together406 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Clove + beetroottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together285 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Beetroot + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the clove

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

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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