Why it works: Green beans and peas share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 54 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Cook haricots, peas, turnips, carrots (all cut into small dice), and mushrooms in a little stock until tender.
In a separate saucepan, mix flour with a little butter until smooth, then add the cooked vegetables and let them simmer.
Grill the lamb cutlets in a skillet with a little butter until cooked through.
Arrange the cutlets on a hot dish and top with the vegetable ragout.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Green beans + peastop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together54 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
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Turnip + carrottop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together8,001 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Mushroom + buttertop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together12,516 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Peas + carrottop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,994 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
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Peas + mushroomtop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together890 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
Flavor stand-ins for the turnip
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, peas, carrot, mushroom, flour, butter, lamb):
- Potatobetter flavor fit
- Asparagusbetter flavor fit
- Tomatobetter flavor fit
- Turnipthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, peas, carrot, mushroom, flour, butter, lamb. 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).
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