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Bison Tartare with Sesame Dusted Lotus Root Chip and Lemongrass Oil Recipe

3 oz bison tenderloin-cut into little cubes2 tbsp champagne mustard (if you don't have any make some by adding some champagne jelly or actual champagne to dijon...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bison and mustard work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

Contains: sesame (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. Bison + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Lotus + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Mustard + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together180 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Bison + sesametop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  5. Champagne + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25 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 shiso

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bison, champagne, mustard, lotus, sesame):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Pepperbetter flavor fit
  4. Shisothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bison, champagne, mustard, lotus, sesame. 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).