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Kale with Chipolatas & Hazelnuts

A fresh idea to make this seasonal veg less worthy

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Hazelnut and pasta share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Hazelnut + pastatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Kale + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Hazelnut + kaletop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + pastatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,960 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Onion + kaletop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together526 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (hazelnut, kale, pasta):

  1. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  2. Beetrootbetter flavor fit
  3. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against hazelnut, kale, pasta. 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).